I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThere are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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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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Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.
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No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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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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There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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I don’t like to say, Oh, this is my favorite record because there was a moment that that record made me feel a certain way. The one on the radio at the present moment could be the one that’s most inspiring, because it’s at that second that you’re aware of “the infinite everything.”
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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.
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It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
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You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
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