Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown, 'Say It Loud - I'm Black and I'm Proud.' They helped black people figure out how to navigate what was a very treacherous place in America for them.
There was a time in American history when almost every white person knew who Aretha Franklin was.
Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
Aretha Franklin was a teenage mom, a musician who came from an incredibly Christian background, but there was a lot of love, which is really inspiring in a feminist way.
Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.
As a civil rights leader, Mrs. King's vision of racial peace and nonviolent social change was a fortifying staple in advancing the civil rights movement.
The civil rights movement would experience many important victories, but Rosa Parks will always be remembered as its catalyst.
Everyone puts all of the advances that we've made on Dr. King, but there's a lot of people who were part of the civil rights movement.
Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.
I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.
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