"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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"At the core of everything that is hurtful to humanity is a lack of consciousness."
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"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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"Unconscious behavior is at the core. Think of the 40 billion animals we abuse and eat who are born into suffering. It's a karmic disaster."
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"We want the government to be controlled by all the people, not by the richest 1%. That's always been the first demand. That's a simple enough message, and I think it's pretty clear now, even though much of the media has been disingenuous in its coverage. We don't want the heads of the biggest industries to make all the decisions, because they're not for the people. They're for the corporations. Power to the people!"
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"What I would do to change this planet is have everyone meditate and look inside. Then we'd have a happier, more service-oriented, less-needy world."
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"I've been thinking a lot about gay marriage. I'm a big supporter."
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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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"I had too many businesses that are frivolous. I have enough. What interests me most is under-served communities. We need a new style of empowering these people, and new approaches."
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"We need to hear everyone. We need dialogue between police and the community. They're angry. They're hurt. A dialogue can cause a shift in consciousness in the person if he's understanding you and listening."
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"Suffering will always be there. You'll always have the poor. You have to own your own progress. It is true that because of the economy and the fear factor the president [Barack Obama] is able to execute a lot of promises that it would be difficult to deliver it not for the fear factor. It's funny. He's delivering on what he promised and we call it fear."
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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. 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'm always surrounded by smart talented people. I had talented partners. Stan Latham for one. Talent scouts."
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"Hip-hop is such a wide statement of culture that everyone is not the same, and it's impossible to put it into one box."
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"Hip-hop took some lessons from rock 'n' roll, and rock 'n' roll took some lessons from hip-hop."
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"I don't eat anything that runs away from me."
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"I don't want to appease everyone. It seems very difficult to be steadfast on truth and be a politician."
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"There are songs and melody that make you really happy. And there are spiritual gifts that you have - giving these gifts away sometimes gives you that feeling of inspiration. These seconds of awareness make you realize that any second can be your favorite one, and it really is up to you."
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"The seconds of presence are where most inspiration comes. There are sunsets that promote it."
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"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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