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

Judgment of the people in the situation is not helpful. How can you help them is the question.
Russell Simmons

Poverty and lack of knowledge must be challenged.
Russell Simmons

The thing about hip-hop is that it's from the underground, ideas from the underbelly, from people who have mostly been locked out, who have not been recognized.
Russell Simmons

My experiences have been, from the very beginning, cultural and creative. And my business has been a way of exposing the culture, exposing the artists so that the world could hear and see them.
Russell Simmons

I try to make my life about service, and hope that one day we can all 'see' a little better because God is with everyone and everywhere.
Russell Simmons

Art allows people a way to dream their way out of their struggle.
Russell Simmons