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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.

Russell Simmons

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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Hip Hop Life Things
Music is the noise that surrounds the stillness of the art form.
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Art Form Noise Stillness
Well, it’s the last step of the Civil Rights Movement: you know, wrap your hands around some money.
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Hands Movement Rights
The artists are now big brands.
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Artists Bigs Brands
Not every move you make has to be a great leap
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Great Leap Moving
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
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
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
When you’re a good giver you’re a good getter.
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Giver Inspirational Karma
I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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Culture Rap Thinking
I don’t believe that people create their own visions. Rather, I believe that visions are actually God’s way of communicating with us.
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Believe Inspirational People
If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.
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Breath Decision Remember
I think the artist’s job throughout history has been to tell – to say things that people are inspired by.
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Artist Jobs Thinking
I think Hollywood is incredibly segregated. I’ve never seen any place like it. The gatekeepers who are the most progressive activists inspired to make the world better… they’re better people, right? They’re segregated. It’s self segregated in some cases, but there’s nobody Black in charge of anything in Hollywood.
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People Self Thinking
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
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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Break Through Digging Wall

That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.

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That happens to me everyday. I watch my thoughts, not only on the mat, but all through the day.

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