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The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”

Russell Simmons

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Artist Creative Culture
It’s very simple: When you’re working your hardest, the world opens up to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Entrepreneur Open Simple World
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

People Self Thinking
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Opening Opportunity World
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Believe English Men Speak
Stay in your lane. If you’re good enough, people will move to you.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Enough Moving People
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Breath Decision Remember
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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Country Inspiration Writing
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Bills Car Pay
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Hollywood Waiting Want
But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Hell Now Right Vegan
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
I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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Choices Feels President
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.”
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Radio Records Way

The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”

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The word mantra comes from two Sanskrit words man, (“to think”) and tra (“tool’). So the literal translation is “a tool of thought.”

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