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We only have X amount of days and time on this planet - how am I going to spend that time? The way that I want to spend it is caring about the people that I love the most, and fighting to make the world a more livable place for everybody.

Michael Franti

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Michael Franti
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: April 21
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I have a passion to make a difference in the world. And that difference can be just making the fans at my show leave with a smile on their face and feeling uplifted.
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When we all see justice, then we'll all see peace!
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Be who you are, nothing more... nothing less.
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The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action.
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During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come.
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The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places.
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Playing on the streets of Iraq, or in Israel or the Gaza strip, I'd sing angry protest songs against war. People would say, 'Make us clap, make us dance, and laugh and sing.' It really made me think about the importance of happy music.
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When you're in Jamaica, unless you're in a tourist spot, you don't hear Bob Marley you mostly hear dance hall music.
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No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother.
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Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.
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I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.
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If the first casualty of war is innocence, then perhaps with each bullet fired, bomb detonated, leader overthrown, wall built, economy destroyed and family member killed, we are not creating goodwill and harmony, but rather another child who believes violence is the only means to bring about change in the world.
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The personal revolution is far more difficult, and is the first step in any revolution.
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Love is the action of soul satisfaction.
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I believe that through positive thoughts, speech, action and attitudes, we change things for the better.
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I want to promote positivity.
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The more I see, the less I know.
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When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world.
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It's also hard for me to understand growing up not knowing where I came from. I searched for my parents - I started when I was twenty I found both my mother and my father when I was twenty-two. Trying to catch up on twenty-two years that we can never get back, trying to reconcile that - that's a hard thing for me.
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