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My sunglasses are like my guitar.

Patti Smith

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Patti Smith
Age: 77
Born: 1946
Born: December 30
Composer
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Guitarist
Human Rights Activist
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Chicago
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Patricia Lee Smith
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I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be great writers.
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I had a really happy childhood - my siblings were great, my mother was very fanciful, and I loved to read. But there was always financial strife.
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We never had any children, he said ruefully. Our work was our children.
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My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.
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People came at me with all sorts of offers, wanting to make me into a hard-core Cher. I had no desire for any amount of money to be reformed for someone's vision, because in the end, that's what you got: your clay in someone else's hands.
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I knew if I lived long enough I would be poet laureate of something.
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My father came a couple of times, but he always blamed his hearing loss on my loud amplifiers. So he didn't come anymore, but I had his support.
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