If it feels like your life has become a nasty, brackish puddle of water, never forget that you do possess the power to transform it into a beautiful, rushing stream that will carry you to enlightenment.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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You’ll see a lot of funny stuff, you’ll see a lot of daddy knows best stuff, you’ll see a lot of me and my wife trying to hold the family together.
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You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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I try to use my voice. I know that celebrity is valuable, and people do listen.
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You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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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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You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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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.
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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
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