I don’t fault business. If you run a corporation, your job is to maximize the return on investment for your investors. Good for you. But by the same token, we have to remember that corporations have no compassion. That’s why legislation and regulations are necessary.
RUSSELL SIMMONSI 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.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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Never pass up any opportunity to share your gifts with the world.
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When you sit quietly and look inside, things that seem so difficult on the outside become a lot easier to digest. Concerns that might’ve caused a lot of anxiety just come and go.
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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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An animal products diet is like smoking 20 cigarettes a day.
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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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The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it.
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The artists are now big brands.
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You’ve got to do things that promote what’s important.
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I feel the choices our president Barack Obama is making now are safer and better.
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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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A person’s strength is to know their weaknesses.
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Art is a way to express yourself and through that you can escape a bad situation.
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You have to live your life as if you are already where you want to be.
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I think that’s what made rap such a stable footprint in culture, that it’s so honest.
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A poet or a comedian can say what’s on the mind of people. They should be funny. They should make you laugh. It may be so truthful that it hurts, but it makes you laugh.
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