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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.
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- Nov 07, 2020
A record is a commodity, but so is a hamburger. Just because I work at McDonald's doesn't mean I reap the benefits of that commodity. That's the reality with most artists in the record industry: They're getting paid a subsistence wage so they can keep producing a commodity for the record label.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to fight the McCarthyist state that's developing in this country so my kids won't live in a world where people are afraid to speak out.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've gotten stopped for reckless eyeballing, for staring too hard. These officers think they're Tarzan and this is a jungle, that all the animals need to be tamed.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
One time, someone came up to me and said, 'I know so-and-so. They're a professor at Harvard. They're a big fan of your work.' But that doesn't impress me more than any other people feeling that way.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't need to be validated by academia, because that presupposes that academia is a pure endeavor and not guided by market forces, which is not the case.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Occupy Wall Street movement, in general, by putting this idea out there that the one percent is leeching off the 99 percent, is making a new discussion, making people figure out how to withhold their labor and come and put their issues on the table with the ruling class all over the country and all over the world.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The point is, is that when you elect a politician, it has nothing to do with their personality. Politicians perform a function, a role in government. And the role of city government is not one that serves the people, unless the people make them do what the people want.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people feel that unions aren't militant enough for them and don't do anything.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want something that's relevant to their lives. They want something that means something to them, and they want something where it seems like people have thought about what they're saying.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think voting is the lowest form of political action that you can do. A lot of times, it keeps people from doing stronger things.
- Change The World
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're told, 'If you want to change the world, vote.' And really, if you want to change the world, there's a lot more things that you can do.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People want things that address their everyday reality, and that goes for stuff that isn't political - with singer-songwriter music, people want things that touch them.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'm a little superstitious.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Chicago. I moved to Detroit until I was six and moved to Oakland at that point. And then we had a couple years in Stockton and Pasadena. And by the time I was 13, I was back in Oakland.
- Farm
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- Nov 07, 2020