I’ve watched towns and cities evolve and become very resilient, and fun, and unique, and prosperous on their own terms. And the secret is bridging. It’s when the local church has a fun clothing swap fundraiser with a temple, and then the next year they bring in the mosque.
DAR WILLIAMSThrough the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field
More Dar Williams Quotes
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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And you bring your words, But you’re just like them, You’re unprepared ‘Cause you don’t know the terrain
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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I am one of those sort of “lesser” types, those sensitive types, those people who wouldn’t have made it on their own if other people hadn’t helped them.
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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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I came out of that and said I don’t want to go back to feeling depressed. So I asked myself, what can I be optimistic about, in terms of the course of the planet? And I discovered there was no end to the optimism I felt.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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There was one tour where I thought, “If I can’t get this feeling back of being excited to be on the stage, then I will quit.” Because I have friends who have dialed it in and I watch their concerts and shake my head. I’m sure the audience can tell, too.
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I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
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I would encourage people to bridge broadly and creatively in their communities, not just because that creates the most fun and resiliency, but also because it creates the most points of access for people to be part of the community, which is what democracy is at its best.
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Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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