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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.

Russell Simmons

That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Broken Hollywood People
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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Hip Hips Hop Offensive
You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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Hollywood Waiting Want
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.
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Dedication Hard Long Work
The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
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Beach Hbo Years
I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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Empowering People Want
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
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
I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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Mind Two Want
I mostly eat healthy. I just do. I’m not a vegan for health reasons – although obviously I’m 20 pounds lighter than when I started. I stayed 20 pounds lighter. I feel better. My friends say I look better. All that’s true. But I’m a vegan for compassionate reasons.
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Better Feel Healthy Looks
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
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple Trying

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