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. – Russell Simmons
Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle. – Russell Simmons
If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what youre going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money. – Russell Simmons
You know, the diversity that America has is so special. Its starting to really become a cool thing for young people. – Russell Simmons
Sometimes I even now feel like a stranger in my country. But I knew there would be problems because I had seen the world as a skater. And now? A lot of people in eastern Germany have lost jobs, rents went up, food costs went up, unemployment went to 20 percent. Freedom is good, but it is not easy. – Katarina Witt