You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
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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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When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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The research shows that if you meditate, the mind becomes still, and they can see the functionality and gray matter in the brain increase, the nervous system calm, the immune system improve and a reduction in stress.
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I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
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I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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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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But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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No 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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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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You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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