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86% of its audience was made ...

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.

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Sometimes, a new toy, a new t...

Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.

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I've shared meditation with a...

I've shared meditation with a lot of hip-hop artists, inmates, and returning war veterans with PTSD, as well. I feel like this dharma, this service is part of my job.

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Urban pop culture is its own ...

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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I want to talk a little bit a...

I want to talk a little bit abut two things: clarity and cloudiness. Both of them quiet the mind. One quiets it, the other numbs it. either way, there's less thought, and the less thought, the more happiness.

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I think it's very important. ...

I think it's very important. I've gone into prisons to meditate with inmates. It's something I plan to do with Tim Robbins soon.

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My idea is to integrate black...

My idea is to integrate black stars into mainstream stars. It hasn't been explored properly. That's what Im doing in Hollywood.

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Donald Trump's not politicall...

Donald Trump's not politically correct. Although you are running for president, you should be politically correct. But there is also the expression of an artist.

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There's one overriding issue,...

There'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.

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Hip-hop is about tearing down...

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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Nothing increases happiness l...

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

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Running all my different comp...

Running all my different companies has turned out to be a lot easier because I mediate twice a day and go to yoga every day.

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I have a pilot called The Re-...

I have a pilot called The Re-Education of Oliver Cooper starring the white kid from Project X where follows a black girl to a black university, like in Legally Blonde. I have so many fun projects.

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I just said let's get some po...

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. Some Latino poets who barely speak English and Asian poets who can't believe how discriminated against they are. It was luck nad being in the right place. I wasn't saying nothing somebody else wasn't saying but they wouldn't hear it from them.

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I try to keep a positive inte...

I try to keep a positive intention, and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. 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 want to do and I'm giving a...

I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.

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Quiet time is the key. We hav...

Quiet time is the key. We have hundreds of thousands of kids around the country meditating through the David Lynch Foundation.

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Being materialistic is part o...

Being materialistic is part of the hip-hop community's nature, because jazz and blues and rock 'n' roll, when they started out in the urban communities, were about the American Dream, and the lack of opportunity in that structure. So they talked about everything - uplifting and getting what is perceived as success in America.

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You don't expect a 94-year-ol...

You don't expect a 94-year-old white guy to pick "Dope," which was an awesome movie not even close to being considered by the Academy. And that's what it's all about, like, promoting people who might not otherwise get promoted and celebrating people who might not get celebrated.

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The best way to protect both ...

The best way to protect both the policemen and the community going forward is by creating a system that's just, where everyone feels safe.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....