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Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.
Tracy Chapman
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Tracy Chapman
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: March 30
Composer
Guitarist
Musician
Recording Artist
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Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
Cleveland
Ohio
Humans
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Human
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I meet people in my daily life, people who seem to experience some change and some growth on a personal level, and that gives me hope.
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Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things
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I may be revered or defamed and decried But I tried to live my life right.
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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.
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We are the spirit, the collective conscience. We create the pain, and suffering, and beauty in this world.
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I got a plan to get out of here, I've been working at a convenient store.
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Now love's the only thing that's free /We must take it where it's found /Pretty soon it may be costly
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My old man's got a problem, he lives with the bottle.
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Have faith in humankind a respect for what is earthly and an unfaltering belief in peace and understanding
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Growing up in Cleveland, I learned about singing from my mother, who had once sung professionally and who admired Mahalia Jackson and Aretha Franklin.
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Who took away the part so essential to the whole Left you a hollow body Skin and bone.
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This youthful heart can love you and give you what you need, but I'm too old to go chasing you around wasting my precious energy.
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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.
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My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
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The songs are not necessarily autobiographical. A lot of songs are a combination of influences. It might be some part of my life, or something I've felt, or something somebody's told me. It all comes together.
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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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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.
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Love's a recurring theme through my work.
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As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.
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I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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