When you give without reservation, you’ll become a magnet that pulls the world toward you.
RUSSELL SIMMONSThe difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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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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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 try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
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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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Embrace struggle… It is your greatest teacher.
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They’re lacking culture in Hollywood. That gives me a big up, right? I know something about pop culture.
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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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You have to be able to say what people are thinking but won’t say. It’s like Donald Trump.
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The artists are now big brands.
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Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
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Learn to let your thoughts exist on their own without getting too involved in them.
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The difference between blues, jazz, rock n’ roll and rap is that rap stayed poor. Even the white rappers are poor. It’s scarier to look at poor people; it makes everyone uncomfortable. Their pain is something that people would like to see swept under the rug.
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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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It is only through opening your hearts will you be able to see that by promoting freedom for all, you are unchaining yourself. I guess I’m an optimist.
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Gratefulness is a practice, just like happiness is a choice.
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