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...ideas on how best we can empower black people educationally, economically and otherwise? -Agboola Kehinde, LondonMy office has a whole floor called Rush Community Affairs. We have the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation and other organizations. Plus, name me a rapper, and I will tell you the name of his charity. Even the worst rappers that you think you hate. You tell me 50 Cent, and I will tell you about G-Unity [his foundation for kids...
From your new book, Do You! 12 Laws to Access the Power in You, can you tell me one law to achieve happiness and success? -Abdisalan Mire, Hamilton, New ZealandGet your mind right. That speaks to meditation and prayer. All of our movements are prayers. Every statement we make and every thought we have is a prayer. And what are we praying for? We are praying to lift people up. Because if you start to move to a cycle of giving, then you will...
...Summit in Detroit, I saw Eminem one time speaking to the audience. He told them that with "hard work, dedication, self study and faith and you can realize any dream." I saw kids in the audience crying, he said it so eloquently. A preacher couldn't tell them. A prophet couldn't tell them. Their mother couldn't tell them. It wouldn't mean s---. But Eminem said it and it rang a bell. I am hopeful that the way this book is written some young and older people will digest...
...enough old, overeducated journalists in a room and tell them to make a list of the world's 100 most influential people, and they'll pick people like paleogeneticist Svante Paabo and Russian opera singer Anna Netrebko. The only surprise is that the list doesn't include a good retirement planner...
...high school--part of the plan to keep them moving briskly toward graduation day. The teachers favor a hands-on approach; there's very little chalk and talk. Perez says he used to hate U.S. history. "In my old school, they'd just give you a page number and tell you to answer questions in the text." At South Brooklyn, he says, "we'll study a court case for a week, and the second week, we act it out. When it's test time, you remember...