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I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.

Russell Simmons

There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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Clouds Labels Vision
Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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Christianity Racism Sickness
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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Democracy People Sight
I don’t use my brain about the creative thing. From a business standpoint, I instinctively do things: when I get something right, it’s never because I use my brain.
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Brain Creative Use
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Gangsta Government Rapper
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
When the mind is totally still, there’s only bliss. I got a piece of that reality from my first yoga class, from smiling and breathing in every difficult pose. I went, “Oh my God! I’m clear! I love this!”
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Breathing Reality Yoga
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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Country Inspiration Writing
Meditation helps everything.
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Everything Helping Meditation
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Opening Opportunity World
And that’s how mantras are used in Buddhist and Hindu practices, as tools that clear your mind of distractions. Because when you focus on repeating that mantra over and over again, soon the noise will die down and all you will hear is your inner voice.
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Again Distraction Mantras Practices Soon
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking

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