Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
DAR WILLIAMSThe summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it
More Dar Williams Quotes
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I’m just trying to be part of the movement that decentralizes and hopefully creates peace. By supporting smaller, democratic structures, you can effect change.
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Every once in a while I’ll say something…I dropped the F-bomb early on in my career. There was this lesbian couple and they looked super-hip.
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A straightforward capitalist society would’ve cut them off and let them die. So I was saved by my friends and by my family and by people who cared about me, and by modern psychotherapy that cared about women.
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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.
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You fly all over the country opening for these other people. You pay a publicist to get some press while you’re establishing yourself and you will be solvent in this career forevermore.
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We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.
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If you’re looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you’ve got to go to Wisconsin.
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And where does magic come from? I think that magic’s in the learning.
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I really lucked out with that song [“As Cool As I Am”]. Men were becoming much more comfortable with all the different facets and parts of their identity, including their gentler, funnier, sillier, nurturing parts. They started showing up.
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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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Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world
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Everyone has to decide how they’re going to appear in their lives, how they’re going to put themselves out there to the world.
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that’s taken too much.
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I am happy to do political fundraisers. I always hope that my friends will be, too. It’s part of who you are and you shouldn’t feel ashamed of what you believe in.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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