Everyone’s part of a team that develops over the years and gives people chances. There have been some good moments watching people develop.
RUSSELL SIMMONSIf 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.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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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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Never change for the mainstream—stay in your lane, and if you’re talented and resilient enough the mainstream will come to you.
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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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If you were elected president, would you publicly support special prosecutors in these cases and what is one other thing you would do to fix our broken justice system?
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Money doesn’t make u happy .. But happy makes you money.
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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.
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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 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’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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Black actors on the road, flying around the country working as poets. Those people are inspirations for millions of kids who write.
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I know a lot of angry liberals right now. Hell, I know a lot of angry vegans.
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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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