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I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.

Russell Simmons

Labels cloud our vision and distract us from seeing how much we have in common with one another.
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Clouds Labels Vision
A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Knows Persons Weakness
I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that’s when you’re able to think and learn.
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Anxiety Insomnia Thinking
I think I’m less afraid of failure than some others.
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Afraid Failure Inspirational Running Thinking
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
As long as you are passionate about your vision, you should keep moving forward.
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Long Moving Vision
American democracy is spoiled by people buying everything in sight and then selling and buying everything in sight, including our politicians.
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Democracy People Sight
If you aren’t passionate about a vision, it’s hard to have faith in it.
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Faith Passionate Vision
Every day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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Goal Simple 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
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 don’t know that God favors the person who has a greater reach than those who have a small reach. It’s the intention. I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others.
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Benefits Favor Trying
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
I think when you’re very dedicated to something and you’re engaged fully, you become a giver.
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Dedicated Giver Thinking
Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
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Dream Perceive Realize
I want people to be free and to be able to express themselves, to find the best ways to say things so that people can digest them.
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Express Free Hope People Themselves

I live in hip-hop. I don’t find it to be offensive.

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