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Peace can start with just one heart.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Heart
Just One
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People love to hear the mistakes you've made.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Mistake
Mistakes You've Made
People
Mistakes
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Time has passed through me and become a song.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Time
Song
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When I am willing, all sound is available to me.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Available
Sound
Willing
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The war on drugs is a war against the communities.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
War
Community
Drug
War On Drugs
Communities
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The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Peace
Fighting
Warrior
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I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Allowing
Culture
Dominant
Perspective
Dictated
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You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Feeding
Hogwash
People
Sentimental
Soon
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A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
People
Political
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Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Given
Giving
Purpose
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White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Journey
Men
Class
Upper Class
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You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round...
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Song
World
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You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Bread
Ifs
Yeast
Rise
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Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Death
Fear
Killing Someone
Why
Show
Wrong
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It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Essentials
Thinking
Men Women Start
Essential
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Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Ideas
Song
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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Expression
Song
Thinking
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When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Opportunity
Blessed
Mistake
Mistakes
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My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Ifs
Parent
Thinking
Life Better Parents
Encouraged
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The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Women
Attitude
Changed
Movement
World
Attitudes
Count
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We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Digging
Relative
Relative Truth
Sucked
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If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Motivational
Wisdom
Guts
Huge
Leap
Making Mistakes
Mistake
Momentum
Mistakes
Forward
Making
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My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Creativity
Guilt
Linked
Responsibility
Work Out
Political Work
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When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they'll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Audience
Concerts
Song
Somewhere
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Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Artist
Hurt
Shocked
Willing
Surprised
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When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Demonstration
Voted
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I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Children
Selfish
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Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Art
Magic
Self
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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.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Damn
Excluded
Giving
Thinking
Umpires
Women Are
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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Force
Mistake
Storytelling
Mistakes
Leaping
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My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Involved
Labor
Labor Movement
Movement
Babies
Grown
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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.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Singing
Thinking
Way
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To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Dinner
People
Pleasure
Surprise
Great Surprise People
Whom
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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'.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Men
Female
Perspective
Song
Concert
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All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Bridges
Risk
Water
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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.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Believe
Silver
Silver Platter
Struggle
Be The First
Handed
Nirvana
Platter
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To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Blessing
Extraordinary
Pain
Real
Real Pain
Sensitivity
Wonder
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Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Space
Take Care
Thinking
Trying
Content
Time Space Thinking
Space Time Thinking
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Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Government
Community
People
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I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you don't get the sweet part without the bitter.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Bitter
Bitterness
Life Is Hard
Sweet
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We are a gentle angry people We are a land of many colors We are gay and straight together We are a peaceful loving people And we are singing, singing for our lives.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Color
Gay
Land
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In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the world have been the true source of my education.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Community
Stories
World
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Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Children
Sleep
Sweet
Intended
Whereas
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It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need him; I needed him, but now I need his best friend. Rather limited scope.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Music
Long
Singing
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It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Delicate
Important
Lines
Musician
Thinker
Best Good Me
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I am not here for me I am not here to promote my ego I am here to serve the Great Spirit To be a voice for those afraid to speak To be movement for those who are stuck I am here to reveal a mystery To learn something new about myself
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Ego
Movement
Voice
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Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Courage
Inspirational
Smile
Empowerment
Rocks
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My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my feet and how they touch the floor, in my legs and how they lift and sink with the rhythm of the song. It is in my hips and belly and lower back.
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Feet
Song
Voice
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In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement! The solidarity movement! The women's movement! The disability movement! The disarmament movement! The gay rights movement! The environmental movement! Movement! Transformation! Is there any reason to believe we are done?
Holly Near / Singer-Songwriter
Women
Believe
Gay
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