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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it.

Russell Simmons

It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
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Fall Law Rap
I’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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Disclosure Kind Persons
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
I don’t miss a day of yoga. I don’t miss my meditation… They’re way more important.
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Meditation Missing Yoga
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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Enough Never Change Resilient
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
There’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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Buckets Giving Soul
Meditation helps everything.
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Everything Helping Meditation
A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Hurt Laughing People
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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Community Hard Reflection Work
I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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People Trying Voice
The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that’s just, where everyone feels safe.
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Community Creating Safe

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