"Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism."

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Dar Williams

Singer-songwriter

Dar Williams is a singer-songwriter known for her insightful lyrics that explore themes of love, identity, and social issues, particularly in her album 'The Green World'.

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"Basically, I have found that people who have tried to start communities out of good feelings or hippie-dippie abstract concepts of love - it doesn't work. But if you just concentrate on what is the identity of your town - its waterfalls, its battles, its notable mill strike or those things - you dig into what your town is from its rock formations to its history to its food. Then this thing called community happens all the time."

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