Holly Near Quotes

• The women’s movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we’ll never be able to count.

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• You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they’ll eat it.

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• You can’t just leave out one part; the bread won’t rise if the yeast isn’t there.

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• Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

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• White middle- and upper-class men have a longer journey to go than many people.

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• When we make mistakes, say, I’m blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

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• When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained.

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• When an audience comes to one of my concerts, I hope they’ll see themselves, somewhere, in one of the songs.

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• We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under.

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• To my great surprise and pleasure, I have had dinner with most of the people living with whom I would like to have dinner.

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• To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, ‘Oh well, that’s for women’.

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• To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

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• The war on drugs is a war against the communities.

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• People love to hear the mistakes you’ve made.

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• Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form – to spend more time thinking about content, and let form take care of itself.

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• Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt.

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• Once women are not excluded, I don’t think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn’t the point.

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• My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we’d grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies.

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• My parents encouraged thought. You’ll get through life better if you learn how to think.

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• My creativity and my political work are linked. I don’t do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

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Holly Near (30)

Birth:	6th June, 1949
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Activist, Actress, Lyricist, Musician, Record Producer, Singer

About

Holly Near was born in Ukiah, California, USA. She is an American singer-songwriter, musician, actress, record producer and activist. She appeared in several films include: Angel, Angel, Down We Go, The Todd Killings, Minnie and Moskowitz, F.T.A., Slaughterhouse-Five, and Dogfight. Her albums list shown below: Sky Dances, Singer in the Storm, Edge, Early Warnings, And Still We Sing, Simply Love, With A Song In My Heart, Crushed!, and Peace Becomes You. Her songs list shown below: "It Could Have Been Me", "Sun Won't Stop", "The Great Peace March", "Sing to Me the Dream", "1000 Grandmothers", "West Virginia Friend", "I Am Willing", "Something About The Women", and "Peace Becomes You". During her long career in folk and protest music, she has worked with a wide array of musicians, including Ronnie Gilbert, Pete Seeger, Arlo Guthrie, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, and Joan Baez. She was probably the first out lesbian to be interviewed in People Magazine. She added LGBT issues to her international peace work as she continued to present social change music around the world and at home.

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