O'REILLY: "Personal Story" segment tonight. If you watch THE FACTOR you know that we have been trying to help children at risk across the country, especially minority kids without parental guidance. President Obama has announced a huge initiative called "My Brother's Keeper" and that is a very strong step forward.
All right now on other programs you have largely apologized for some of the promiscuous stuff.
RUSSELL SIMMONS: Well not so much.
O'REILLY: You say it reflects the reality of the situation.
SIMMONS: Yes. I kind of think that artists throughout history, poets throughout history have been criticized for sharing what's on people's minds and I don't think it's any different now. I think for thousands of years, hundreds of years -
O'REILLY [Talking over him]: Explain this
SIMMONS: [Inaudible over O'REILLY]... certainly in this country.
SIMMONS: No, But I will say that -- I think the artist's job throughout history has been to tell -- to say things that people are inspired by. There is a subject -- there is a research that says a man thinks about sex every 12 seconds. And so when an artist expresses something that's sexual in music it is a reflection of our reality. If we want that reality changed, then we have to do things that affect the core.
So what I want to do and this is another subject back again but I want to put meditation in schools.
O'REILLY: Ok, and we'll get to that in a moment because I agree with you on that and I support the David Lynch Foundation which does just that.
SIMMONS: Ok. As a parent of two children both of whom go to the schools for the gifted, I go to their home every morning at 6:15 and meditate with them until 6:35. I take them to school. We listen to the most commercial radio station on the way to school where they beef out certain words. But they've heard most of that language. My daughters make choices based on the inspiration that we give them as parents.
SIMMONS: Yes: she is a brilliant artist and she's not only by people of color as you know, she is really one of the top artists in the world.
O'REILLY: She is. And I can't understand why the woman did it.
All right. Let's get to the meditation because I think it's important.
SIMMONS: I do, too.
O'REILLY: It calms people down. That's number one. It calms people down. Because you take a moment of silence every day in a disciplined way and then when you do that, positive thoughts can come to you and you can -- you can express things in a way that doesn't conflict. So you want to get it in the public schools right.
SIMMONS: Absolutely.
O'REILLY: All right it would be optional some kids and parents didn't want it, you wouldn't force them to do it.
SIMMONS: I don't think we'd forced them, but I think quiet time or sitting with patience and not having any -- there is no religious or any kind of a gender that should separate you from any religious ideas. And so I think as much as you say it should be optional. I think we should sit down just like we have to do math and be quiet. So we're going to be quiet and we're going to let our thoughts settle. And from that silence, we'll have a more expansive mind set and better brain functionality. It might have to be quiet.
O'REILLY: So again they are yelling and screaming in that time.
SIMMONS: Not that 20 minutes.
O'REILLY: Can you come to my house Russell? I want you -- you can come to my house any time. The book is Success through Stillness and I think you're on the right track. You and see Beyonce tell her to knock it off from me. Ok?
SIMMONS: Oh no, you say to her --
O'REILLY: I'm not afraid of her you tell me. She can come on here any time. But what she did was wrong.
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