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Needing nothing really is the ultimate goal. And to have nothing to do with things.

Russell Simmons

A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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Hurt Laughing People
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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Fall Law Rap
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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Helpful Helping People Question
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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Breath Decision Remember
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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Believe English Men Speak
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
I don’t fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
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Compassion Remember Running
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken.
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Broken Hollywood People
Happy can make you money, but money can’t make you happy.
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Happy Make Money
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
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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Giving Happiness Keys
I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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Artist Jobs Thinking

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