I'm still thinking and hoping there's an opportunity for people to have better lives and that significant change can occur.
From 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.
I don't try to project any image at all, other than the person that I am.
I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
I never assumed I would have that commercial success, so it was a total surprise. And honestly, I never assumed that it would ever happen again.
So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
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.
Music was never just a hobby for me. I'd pick up a guitar every day to work on whatever I was writing at the time. I would put my ideas in songs the way some people might put them in diaries or journals.
What does the future look like if the heads of society ask our young people to risk their lives for questionable causes? I think it looks rather bleak.
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?'
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