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My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
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You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
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White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
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Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.
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Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
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To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.
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My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
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Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
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My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
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When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
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I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
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A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
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When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
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