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If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing.
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To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.
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It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
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It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
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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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When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
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To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
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Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
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I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.
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When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
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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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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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