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As a young person, I was on the road playing music, so I was getting new environments shoved in my face whether I wanted them or not.

Road Playing Music Shoved
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I would like go to Palestine and interview people there about what their lives are like; same thing in Iran.

Lives Palestine Iran Interview
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There's tons of junk food for your mind on the Internet. You can sit there for three or 10 or 20 hours a day getting in online arguments with other people who also choose to waste their time.

Arguments People Choose Waste
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Marriage is lovely when it works, but if it does not, should one condemn oneself ? I stopped feeling guilty for being me.

Condemn Guilty Being Lovely
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The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.

Heard Show Coming Compliment
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Rarely do I do film press because I'm so low on the food chain of the movie, and for me it's just this thing I did for four weeks before the next tour started.

Movie Weeks Next Tour
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You must never lower yourself to being a person you don't like.

Lower Being Person Must
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I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

Status Basically Wasting Financing
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Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're done.' After tons of great records and tickets sold, he said, 'Now I'm going to grow my hair out and play my horn through a wah-wah pedal.' Rather than play it safe, he went on.

Rather Play Horn Through
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Living entirely off writing is a precarious existence and money is always short, bit with careful management and planning I found I could keep my head and those of my family, through God's grace, above water.

Water Grace God Family
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A hungry man is an angry one.
Angry Hungry Man
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.

African Approve Book Bride
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Weakness is what brings ignorance, cheapness, racism, homophobia, desperation, cruelty, brutality, all these things that will keep a society chained to the ground, one foot nailed to the floor.

Society Chained Nailed Floor.Weakness
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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The prison-industrial complex and the military-industrial complex are here with us and are multi-billion dollar enterprises. We can make more money off the kid in Compton if he's a criminal instead of a scholar. It's business.

Money Criminal Instead Scholar
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I try to be well informed. I don't know how well I do all the time, but I try nonetheless.

Informed Well Nonetheless Try
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Show a people as one thing, only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

Become Show People Only
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I think the U.K. is an amazing place and has been extremely good to me. Some of my favorite and most-listened-to bands are from England. I have met many good people there and have been in front of some of the most loyal audiences I have ever encountered.

Amazing Extremely England Encountered
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In Israel, there's a lot to learn from anyone, because to live there you've got to deal with the truth. Things happen real fast. Your day goes from cool to catastrophic in one second. Israelis know that the cafe you're in could blow up, or the shopping mall, and they rock that.

Israel Truth Happen Rock
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When someone asks you, 'What's punk?' my reply is, 'If you have to ask, you're never going to know.

Punk Never Know Reply
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I think Naomi Klein was very astute with her book 'Shock Doctrine.' We make money on disaster.

Shock Doctine Money Disaster
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The problem with gender is that it prescribes how we should be rather than recognizing how we are. Imagine how much happier we would be, how much freer to be our true individual selves, if we didn’t have the weight of gender expectations.

Problem Gender Weight Individual
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I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the feeling I was playing music, I had to stop. The need to go onstage and get my brain flattened every night left me, and what I didn't wanna do is go onstage and perpetrate a fraud... You cannot fool an audience.

Fraud Fool Audience Onstage
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First we need to calm down, breathe, and get over ourselves.
Over First Calm Breathe
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A lot of Americans don't have a passport, never will have a passport. Not only will they not travel, they don't want to travel.

Passport Travel Americans Lot
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I was in Pakistan in Islamabad when Bhutto was assassinated, and the next day, you know, there's just plumes of smoke everywhere. I mean, Islamabad is on fire.

Plumes Islamabad Fire Smoke
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I've never heard Daft Punk; I've never heard a track of theirs in my life. They're the two guys with motorcycle helmets on?

Motorcycle Heard Life Helments
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I have chosen to no longer be apologetic for my femaleness and my femininity. And I want to be respected in all of my femaleness because I deserve to be.

Deserve Chosen Longer Want
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I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

Ireland Interview Kathy Boring
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Race doesn't really exist for you because it has never been a barrier. Black folks don't have that choice.

Race Never Exist Choice
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I don't have a crystal ball, but I'm willing to bet one of my arms right now that as long as there's electricity, Ramones music is going to be relevant.

Electricty Ramones Relevant Music
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I'm not in a position where I get to pick and choose roles. I usually go on auditions in long lines and embarrass myself in front of casting directors, and with a lump in my throat and my ears burning, I walk past reception and smirking actors as I go to the parking garage and go back on the highway.

Actors Parking Garage Highway
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Seven-11 is the pulse-beat of America. I think that Bruce Springsteen should do a song about a 7-11 in Asbury Park, New Jersey, but write it in such a way that American's youth can identify and slurp along with the Boss. Hail the Boss! Hail 7-11!

Youth Slurp Boss American's
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We teach girls shame. “Close your legs. Cover yourself.” We make them feel as though being born female they’re already guilty of something. And so, girls grow up to be women who cannot say they have desire. They grow up to be women who silence themselves. They grow up to be women who cannot say what they truly think. And they grow up — and this is the worst thing we do to girls — they grow up to be women who have turned pretense into an art form.

Teach Close Cover Feel
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I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave.

Australians Usually Drag Leave
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Then she wished, more rationally, that she could love him without needing him. Need gave him power without his trying; need was the choicelessness she often felt around him.

Around Often Power Felt
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
Alone Cannot Like Lonely
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Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Acting Day Future Gone
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

Day Ethics Live Rather
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.

Abundance Acquire Something Tune
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You can never get enough of what you don't want.You can never get enough of what you don't want.

Enough Get Never Want
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Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Future Go Now Promised
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Teach her that the idea of 'gender roles' is absolute nonsense. Do not ever tell her that she should or should not do something because she is a girl. 'Because you are a girl' is never reason for anything. Ever.

Teach Idea Role Gender
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We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

Ask Divine Enough Important
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What comes out when life squeezes you? When someone hurts or offends you? If anger, pain and fear come out of you, it's because that's what's inside.

Anger Because Come Fear
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We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

Often Each Answer Question
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The last suit that you wear, you don't need any pockets.

Any Last Need Pockets
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I often make the mistake of thinking that something that is obvious to me is just as obvious to everyone else.
Mistake Often Obvious Else
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I am trying to unlearn many lessons of gender I internalized while growing up. But I sometimes still feel vulnerable in the face of gender expectations.

Lesson Unlearn Trying Vulnerable
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When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
Another Define Judge Them
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