American - Musician | March 30, 1964 -
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.
Tracy Chapman
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So much has happened to obscure the dialogue about race and about gender and discrimination in general, especially where those things touch on economics.
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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.
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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.
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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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There are good reasons for being in jail - for protesting.
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As you might imagine, I'm approached by lots of organizations and lots of people who want me to support their various charitable efforts in some way. And I look at those requests, and I basically try to do what I can.
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I love living in California and being able to go to the beach or go to the woods.
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If you are living a life that feels right to you, if you're willing to take creative chances or a creative path that feels like it's mostly in keeping with your sensibilities, you know, aesthetic and artistic, then that's what matters.
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As a child, I spent a lot of time at the library.
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I think many people would say that writers like Stephen King have hypergraphia.
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I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go.
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