What holds most people back isn't the quality of their ideas, but their lack of faith in themselves.
Russell SimmonsI mean people are sexist and racist and homophobic and violent. But I don't think of the rappers as being any more sexist or racist or homophobic than their parents. Certainly less, in all those cases, less homophobic or racist or sexist, and then less gangster than our government. It's stuff that people normally don't speak on, subjects they don't speak on, and ideas they kind of keep to themselves.
Russell SimmonsThere's one overriding issue, namely, that we live in a police state so long as the police get to police themselves. And that is why cops go unindicted.
Russell SimmonsI'm still moving around.We're building a platform to put a song out every week for 52 weeks called ADD52.
Russell Simmons