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I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.

Russell Simmons

You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Able People Thinking
We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They’re angry. They’re hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he’s understanding you and listening.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Community Hurt Understanding
Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Encouraging Inspirational Life
Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Goal Positivity Promoting
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!”
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Breathing Reality Yoga
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 think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Rap Thinking
I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.
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Cooper Education Fun Girl Kids University
I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Bills Car Pay
The politicians already in office don’t want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Heart Office Winning
There is a subject – there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that’s sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
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Artist Reflection Sex Something
Good givers are great getters.
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Getters Giver Great
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.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Issues Long Police
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Culture Hollywood Urban
My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
RUSSELL SIMMONS

Animal Running Texas
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking

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