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.
RUSSELL SIMMONSEvery day set the simple goal of trying to be more awake and less distracted.
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If you learn late, you pass it on to people so they can learn early. It’s a step process.
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That was never my intention to compete with the Oscars.
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The conditions of suffering that exist today in our impoverished communities are not acceptable. The reflection of those conditions are less concerning to me. And I work everyday about changing the conditions.
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I’m lucky that I have a platform that I can answer my own questions.
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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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I’ve been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I’m a big supporter.
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I just said let’s get some poets on tv. And when they said that sounded unlikely, I made it worse. I said, no man, I want to put a bunch of black poets on stage, too.
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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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I don’t miss my prayers and I don’t miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.
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Those who need nothing attract everything.
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The reason I got a break in Hollywood when I moved here a few years ago is my good buddy, who I was on the beach with when he was a publicist, is now the chairman of HBO.
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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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I can’t get my medicine.
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Everyone’s goal is to be happy. Happiness is achieved by promoting happiness to others.
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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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