Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
RUSSELL SIMMONSJudgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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The politicians already in office don’t want to change. A few might have it in their hearts to change and to start working for the people, but even some of the most progressive politicians are silent because they know that the candidate with the most money wins.
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No matter where you want to go, as long as you follow your path with faith, dedication and hard work, you are going to get there.
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If you don’t break a hole through the brick wall, don’t just start digging a new hole. Keep going until you break through that wall.
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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.
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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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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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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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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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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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I can’t pay my [bills]. I can’t go to work. My car is out of gas.
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The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Culture in America and everywhere else comes from the suffering, from those who don’t want the old ways. They want to bring in the new, whether it’s the ballet, when it started, or Shakespeare.
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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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