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Michael Franti Quotes

I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: April 21, 1967

Topics

Soul People Think My Soul Different

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.

Hope Enough Find Way Possible Keep

It's hard to give up the self-esteem connected to being codependent and appearing 'right,' which is probably a survival behavior learned from growing up in a crazy family. It feels like you will actually disappear.

Family Crazy Growing Up Behavior You

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

Today Freedom World Reality Place

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

You House Go Know Want Difficult

I would love to say I grew up on 2Pac and The Beatles, but I didn't.

Love Say Up Beatles Would Grew

At school, we'd studied the Romans and the Saxons, and I was fascinated by it all. So I made my dad take me to the British Museum as often as possible.

School Me Museum Possible British

Economic growth must be the central issue because it is only through growth that the devastating threat of national bankruptcy can be averted. Furthermore, it is only by reviving American economic growth that the West's global predominance can be sustained, and peace and freedom kept secure around the world.

Growth Freedom Peace World American

We lived in a hotel for many years as we struggled financially, but I always loved football.

Football Loved Hotel Always Lived

You seize sentiment better when you get clear of nature. You breathe it in every sense!

Nature Better You Breathe Seize Get

I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a steady assignment of reading. I'm also a judge for the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, which gives awards to literature and nonfiction.

Joyce Carol Oates

Book Reading Judge Enlightenment

I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.

Angry Street Kid Always Playing

Children are being adultified because our economy is depending on them to make purchasing decisions. So they're essentially the victims of a marketing and capitalist machine gone awry.

Douglas Rushkoff

Children Decisions Marketing Economy

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