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.
DAR WILLIAMSWhen we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
More Dar Williams Quotes
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I was raised by parents who really admired the religious leaders of the left, as many 60s and 70s liberals did.
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The pendulum usually swings from left to right and then right to left, but there are so many people in power who have taken the pendulum and just pinned it to the right that there is a fear that it’s never going to swing back.
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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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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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Women were making more money. Women were saying, “My voice counts. If we’re going out on a Friday night, I don’t want to see a Rambo movie. I want to go see a singer/songwriter who sings about my life”.
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When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.
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Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.
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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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[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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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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And I’ll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends.
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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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There’s tons of anger and angst and peculiarity and eccentricity, and good towns know that that’s okay. But towns that are kind of bullshit don’t know what to do with all those feelings.
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Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.
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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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