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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.

Dar Williams

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
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Singer-Songwriter
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Mount Kisco
New York
Dorothy Snowden Williams
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The light that stopped the night felt like forgiveness.
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There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.
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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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Guiding the ship takes more the your skill. It is the compass inside as the strength of your will.
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When people in government [make mistakes], they don't say, those people in the government. They say, we've got a problem to solve.
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Go ahead, push your luck, find out how much love the world can hold.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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And the ones that know you so well are the ones that can swallow you whole.
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In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.
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