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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
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Singer-Songwriter
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Cleveland
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More quotes by Tracy Chapman
I found myself in the middle of a race riot when I was about 14 years old, and I found someone pointing a gun at me and telling me to run or they'd shoot me.
Tracy Chapman
My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
Tracy Chapman
Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
Tracy Chapman
I dressed up as a veterinarian for a Halloween costume party. I had the lab coat. I got a couple of stuffed animals for patients and put bandages on them.
Tracy Chapman
People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.
Tracy Chapman
When you feel like you've had a good show, you go backstage and you talk to yourself about it, and if you have a bad show you talk to yourself about it.
Tracy Chapman
Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
Tracy Chapman
Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
Tracy Chapman
We all must live our lives always feeling, always thinking the moment has arrived.
Tracy Chapman
Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly
Tracy Chapman
I may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
Tracy Chapman
Love's a recurring theme through my work.
Tracy Chapman
I see some recurring themes: things that feel threaded together, some symbolic references, and songs about some of the big questions, like death. There are a lot of references to weather, too!
Tracy Chapman
As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.
Tracy Chapman
There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.
Tracy Chapman
I don't want someone to squeeze me, that might take away my life. Just want someone to hold me, and we'll rock through the night.
Tracy Chapman
I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
Tracy Chapman
Men are able to sustain a career into their 50s and 60s and still present themselves as sex symbols. With women, on the other hand, people say, 'Why doesn't she retire?'
Tracy Chapman
I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
Tracy Chapman
So don't be tempted by the shiny apple Don't you eat of a bitter fruit Hunger only for a taste of justice Hunger only for a world of truth 'Cause all that you have is your soul.
Tracy Chapman
