What happened on “As Cool As I Am” was, you know how in the ’90s, “the personal is political, the political is personal”? That was a really big thing.
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More Dar Williams Quotes
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They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won’t do a better job of it.
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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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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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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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It’s a collective truth that slavery is wrong, that child labor is wrong, that gross inequality is wrong. God didn’t send it.
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[Mortal City ] was also the beginning of the reality of the fact that I was going to have little pieces of my personality identifying with all of these different parts of the country.
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Slavery doesn’t have any positives.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I’ll write about what I write about and assume that I’m being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.
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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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If you’re lucky you find something that reflects you, Helps you feel your life, protects you, Cradles you and connects you to everything.
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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A song versus an album is not like a scene versus a play.
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Through 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
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But where do we come up with this notion of a woman in which the less space you take up, the more you’re worth?
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