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Tracy Chapman Quotes

Honestly, I think, as an artist, it's everything that's in your life that informs what you do. So, obviously, growing up in Cleveland has played a big role in how I see the world.

Tracy Chapman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: March 30, 1964

Topics

Life Growing Up World Think You See

The best decision I made at NYU was joining the Shakespeare ensemble. It literally led to everything I did after that. It gave me the kind of confidence I really needed.

Jesse L. Martin

Confidence Decision Best Me Kind

I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Shadow Me I Can More See Out

I get a lot of letters. Not only from children but from adults, too. Almost every week, every month, clippings come in from some part of the world where ducks are crossing the street.

Robert McCloskey

Children World Week Letters Street

I led the state in defensive interceptions my senior year, with seven in nine games. Then I went to Montana to play basketball and found out quickly that my college career wasn't going to work out how I'd envisioned it.

Jeff Ament

Work College Basketball Year Career

Seriously, I dreamed that I was in my husband's dream, watching what he was dreaming about. Like, I was in his dream as an onlooker. It was so weird that I immediately wrote it down in the middle of the night. In the morning, it still sounded cool.

Lisa McMann

Morning Cool Night Husband Weird

A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

Jay Griffiths

Freedom Voting Media Important

I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

Jonathan Evison

Old Years Through Who Buddy His

I gave all I had. Now I want to enjoy my family.

Diego Maradona

Family Enjoy Now Want Gave Had

I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.

Cory Booker

Heart People Me Colleagues Reality

It has become impossible to give up the enterprise of disarmament without abandoning the whole great adventure of building up a collective peace system.

Arthur Henderson

Great Peace Adventure Building Up

Holland was one of the first countries to adopt dance music into their culture, and we were the first ones to have really big raves. I grew up in that atmosphere in the early 1990s, and I was very interested in how dance music was made.

Armin van Buuren

Music Culture Dance Early First Big

We all fight over what the label 'feminism' means but for me it's about empowerment. It's not about being more powerful than men - it's about having equal rights with protection, support, justice. It's about very basic things. It's not a badge like a fashion item.

Annie Lennox

Justice Men Fight Support Fashion