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

Russell Simmons

When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
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Giving Reservations World
The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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Heartbeat Poetry Soundtracks
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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People Self Thinking
You have to be present, awake and happy now.
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Awake Happy Now Present
I’m not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.
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Communities People Suffering
I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Missing Prayer Yoga
I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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Express Free Hope People Themselves
I ask everyone – white Hollywood and black Hollywood – to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That’s where they’re going to learn from each other, and that’s where they’re going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place.
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Black Hollywood White
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
There’s one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
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Issues Long Police
Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing.
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Meditating Meditation Missing
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
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Brother Gay Heart
You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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Able People Thinking
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
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Canditate Giving More Process
You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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Important Promote Things
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Animal Thinking Trying
You will be a great entrepreneur if you operate with a real sincere wanting to serve.
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Entrepreneur Real Sincere
Everything you need to know about success is inside of you, because I believe it is inside of all of us. That is, all human beings have potential for infinite success.
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Believe Business Success
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Long Moving Vision
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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Breathing Reality Yoga
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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Artist Differences Wise
I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Answers Lucky Platform
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
There are no failures, only quitters.
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Failure No Quitter
I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, mediation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
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Creative Focus People

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