I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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’m a full disclosure kind of person.
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I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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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.
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The soundtrack in the poetry is the soundtrack from your own heartbeat.
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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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I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there’s less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.
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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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Whatever you chase will run away from you. So, stop chasing success and realize you already have it all.
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Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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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.
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I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.
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I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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