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American - Musician Born: June 6, 1949

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Wisdom You Intelligence Mistakes

The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

War Against War On Drugs Communities

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

People Wrong Why Who Show

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You People Eat Pretty

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

You Rise Bread Leave

White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

Men Journey People White

People love to hear the mistakes you've made.

Love You People Mistakes

When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

Hope See Somewhere Audience

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.

Culture Perspective Dominant Allowing

My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.

Life You Parents Think

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It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.

Men Women Think Start

We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

Truth Who Keep Interested

My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

Work Responsibility Creativity Guilt

Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.

Food Language Think Expression

The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.

Women World Never Over

A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.

People Political Say Afraid

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

Blessed Opportunity Mistakes Say

Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

Hurt Artist Being Surprised

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

Me Great Mistakes Behind

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'.

Men Women Perspective Say

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.

Singing Feel Think Way

When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

Students Stage Cast Demonstration

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.

Women Think Will Damn

My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

City Parents Labor Up

To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

People Dinner Great Surprise

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.

Day Struggle Believe Silver

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