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86% of its audience was made up of people of color. That tells you that the full potential of many black stars won't be realized until their audiences are fully integrated.
Russell Simmons
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Russell Simmons
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: October 4
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I live in hip-hop. I don't find it to be offensive.
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If you talk about the prison-industrial complex, I've fought against the prison-industrial complex when I called for a repeal of the Rockefeller drug laws. 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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People are murdering each other without any recourse... So we need to get in our communities and work from the inside out.
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I look for people who have insight in places where I don't.
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My little girls are the most beautiful women in the world. I am a lucky, lucky man. I will spend every day making sure that they know this.
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