"...we're all in a soup of trying to live by words, and trying to live by poetry. It's both humbling, and really flattering to know that my words are part of all that."
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"Sixties folk rock was my original muse and the folk audience-people who listen to music off the beaten track-fostered my career. I definitely don't want to abandon the genre but I also need to make sure I'm Dar Williams first."
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"And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole."
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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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"The biggest difference would be made if we don't have wars to begin with."
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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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"There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us"
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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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"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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"They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it."
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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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"And I'll act like I have faith, and like that faith never ends, but I really just have friends."
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"As I said in one of my songs, we're still abolishing slavery, but nobody says it's a good thing. Nobody justifies it."
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""Is it how she moves, or how she looks?" I say it's loneliness suspended to our own like grappling hooks, And as long as she's got noise, she's fine. But I could teach her how I learned to dance when the music's ended."
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"Therapy was the biggest romance of my life."
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"The only word for love is everybody's name."
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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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"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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"Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world"
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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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