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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.

Russell Simmons

You have to learn to laugh all the time. It’s a practice of life. It’s a practice of happiness.
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Happiness Laughing Practice
That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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Complete Intention Oscars
Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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Choices Gratefulness Practice
I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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Bigs Gay Thinking
Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.
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Giving Happy Make Others Stay Strong
There are poor white people who hear rap music and feel it is about them, because it is. That’s why you have an Eminem and a Bubba Sparxxx and rappers like that.
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People Rap White
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Educational Knowledge Running
Last year my wife got a Rolls-Royce.
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Lasts Wife Years
Antisemitism is just another form of racism. It’s the same sickness, whether it’s about Christians, about Islamophobia, which is horrible. It’s all wrong. It’s all the same.
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Christianity Racism Sickness
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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Ballet Country People Suffering
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
Good givers are great getters.
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Getters Giver Great
Nowadays, if you’re a great artist, you don’t have to leave the house, which is a really big difference. You’re closer to the artist. And the artist can be closer to their artistry without having to always worry about branding themselves or building something image-wise.
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Artist Differences Wise
The old world is quickly disappearing, and the new opportunities are opening up.
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Opening Opportunity World
I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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Believe English Men Speak

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