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

Russell Simmons

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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Cooper Education Fun Girl Kids University
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.
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Meditation Noise Tools
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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Country Inspiration Writing
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
The key ingredient to any kind of happiness or success is to never give less than your best
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Giving Happiness Keys
The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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Inspiration Seconds Sunset
If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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People Process Steps
The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.
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Creativity Done Imagination
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
Gangsta rappers, they call them. Not nearly as gangsta as the things that inspire them.. you know, a gangsta government that we operate under.
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Gangsta Government Rapper
The world belongs to the people who say, ‘I can’.
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Belongs People World
Donald Trump’s not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.
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Artist Expression Running
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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Enough Never Change Resilient
Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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Opportunity Share World
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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Artist Creative Culture

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