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I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.

Russell Simmons

But rich or poor, black or white, none of us are entitled to anything.
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Black Poor Rich White
I don’t want to wait for Hollywood to decide that what I do is good.
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Hollywood Waiting Want
You just have to pay attention to what people need and what has not been done.
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Business Entrepreneur People
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
Get your hustle on… Hard work is easy, working out is hard.
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Hard Hustle Out Work
You cannot find it anywhere, because it is located inside you… happiness is your natural state.
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Happiness Happy Inspirational
I really, really try to be a good servant. It makes me happy when I’m a good giver without expectations.
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Expectations Giver Trying
Urban pop culture is its own phenomena that is for some reason is left out of Hollywood. It’s the most mainstream thing there is.
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Culture Hollywood Urban
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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Beautiful Encouragement Rushing
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Opening Opportunity World
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
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
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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Pain Rap Rock
The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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Community Hard Reflection Work
I’m a big supporter of President Obama.
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Country President Support

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