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A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

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
The biggest impediment to get the laws changed was the lobbyists. Whether you’re talking about healthcare, jobs going overseas, or tax reform, you’re always coming up against lobbyists.
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Biggest Changed Lobbyist Overseas
Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
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Helpful Helping People Question
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’s something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture.
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Culture Hollywood Missing
It’s always marketeers building their own careers.
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Building Careers
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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Break Career Stars Through
I applaud what the Oscars are doing to promote diversity. I think it’s great.
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Diversity Oscars Thinking
Self-Development Quotes on: Courage, Honesty Any kind of lasting success is rooted in honesty.
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Development Honesty Self
I was literally calling my customers who were complaining on social media and having a dialog with them, and sending them money.
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Calling Complaining Media
The stuff I do, I do every day, and I’ve been doing it for long periods of time. I don’t start and quit-ever. I start and stay on it.
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Long Running Stuff
A large portion of American citizens, especially people of color, have lost confidence in our criminal justice system. Many have called for appointing special prosecutors when a police officer kills or injures a civilian.
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Broken Color Justice
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
You need Black [people] sometimes to understand things about Black culture.
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Black Needs People
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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Happiness Laughing Practice
Mistakes only cost you when you don’t acknowledge them.
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Acknowledge Cost Mistake

A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

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A clear and focused mind will last a lifetime. Getting your mind in shape is nothing less than the key to sustainable success in the world.

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