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I have faith in people and our government ultimately to do the right thing. And to my brothers and sisters in California, I’m there with you every step of the way until that day comes…

Russell Simmons

I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Trying Voice
You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Able People Thinking
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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Culture Hollywood Urban
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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Biggest Changed Lobbyist Overseas
Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.
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Hip Hop Life Things
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
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Christianity Racism Sickness
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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Building Careers
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Bills Car Pay
I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I’m a good giver without expectations.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Expectations Giver Trying
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
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!”
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Breathing Reality Yoga
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Process Steps
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Answers Lucky Platform
I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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Hell Now Right Vegan

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