We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They’re angry. They’re hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he’s understanding you and listening.
RUSSELL SIMMONSGet unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.
More Russell Simmons Quotes
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No matter what we’ve done or where we’ve been, every single one of us can change.
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Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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In the end, the overriding factor in whether or not you realize your dreams is going to be you. Not the world. YOU.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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I would like to employ more people but I don’t want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I’m working on that.
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No one wants to sell to just 12% of the population for the entire length of their careers. It creates a difficult and less-profitable environment. But Hollywood has lived with that limiting mantra, and only a few black stars have managed to break through.
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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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Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish. If you don’t, they’re going to rot, attract a bunch of flies, and start stinking up your soul.
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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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I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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My wife Kimora once told me while we were watching “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” that it’s a vegetarian movie because the way that the woman was screaming, “Aaaahhh,” and trying to run away is how every animal you eat reacted at the slaughterhouse.
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The elected officials should be working for the voters who elected them. Money corrupts the process. Why would you be giving a candidate money unless you expect something in return?
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I signed Jay-Z because he was on fire. I wasn’t a genius. The record was great. I put it on The Nutty Professor soundtrack and we signed him.
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I 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.
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I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what’s on people’s minds and I don’t think it’s any different now.
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