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Slavery doesn't have any positives.

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Dar Williams
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: April 19
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Mount Kisco
New York
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There was this moment in 2003 when I was asked to do a fundraiser for someone who was speaking out against the Iraq war when nobody was. I said, I will do a fundraiser for that guy. And then my friend John Hall, from the band Orleans...He ran for Congress in my district and won. I did a bunch of fundraisers for him.
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I'm amazed at the adolescent nature of some of the religious fanatics in our government. And they're full of double standards.
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But I benefit from the taxes I pay because I know how to access the benefits of the taxes.
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...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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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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I went to Canada and played in this tiny bar where the windows were steaming up and everybody was so animated and singing along right there at the foot of the stage, looking up, and I got my mojo back .
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The best, most solid place to stand as you look at our present situation is on a foundation of history. The Roman Empire, the British Empire, and the Nazi empire all have things in common.
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What we need to do is pull the rug out so billionaires in our country wake up one morning and say, wow, 80 percent of the country has a solar panel, and we can't make our billions anymore because other people are making millions, but not billions, on alternative energy that doesn't require war. Suddenly, the war-making machinery is not necessary.
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What happened on As Cool As I Am was, you know how in the `90s, the personal is political, the political is personal? That was a really big thing. Choices you made about how you recorded and what instruments you used and how much real versus how much synthetic. Those were choices that were seen as very political at the time.
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For my 50th birthday I just want to make it all make sense [being exactly half introvert], and then a couple of weeks later do the blow-out with all my friends.
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We have evolved to understand that language of power that's taken too much.
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I have a sordid past.
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It's just that you don't have to bring it to every stage. You can do a fundraiser for people that you support. You don't necessarily have to talk about one thing or another when you're on your own.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.
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The only I would say is a little different is when I know my parents are in the audience. That's never going to be the same as another concert.
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I have odometer readings, kids all sorts of measurements of what I've been doing for the last 20 years. I get it. I get that it was a while ago.
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Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.
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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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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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