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Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.

Russell Simmons

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
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 Jobs Running
I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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Animal Thinking Trying
I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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Hip Hips Hop Offensive
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
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Brother Gay Heart
They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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Culture Giving Hollywood
People are afraid of failure – they don’t like to work so hard and have people keep saying, ‘No.’ I think that’s what people fear most.
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People Saying Thinking
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
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Broken Color Justice
I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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Artist Different People Sharing Thinking
An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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Animal Cigarette Smoking
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Long Moving Vision
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
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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Country President Support

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