There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
RUSSELL SIMMONSNo one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
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I think if you’re open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you’re closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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And the more people meditate, the more it increases the positive vibrations turning the planet into a positive, happy place. The more you do that, the greater service you are to God.
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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.
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Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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It’s all about the work. Nothing is going to fall into your lap. If you want to be a lawyer, see yourself as a lawyer, go to the library and start learning the law. If you want to be a rapper, start rapping and get out there. Live your life as if you already are where you want to be.
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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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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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