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Russell Simmons

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
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 want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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Kids Running Want
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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Goal Positivity Promoting
You have to be present, awake and happy now.
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Awake Happy Now Present
I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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Believe English Men Speak
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 fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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Compassion Remember Running
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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Great Leap Moving
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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Giving Happiness Keys
I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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Fire Genius Records
You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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Development Life Self Want
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Culture Rap Thinking

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