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Gretchen Parlato Quotes

As an artist, what you do represents who you are. Coming from a genuine, honest place - that's what I'm trying to do.

Gretchen Parlato

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: February 11, 1976

Topics

Trying You Artist Place Genuine Who

For me the march was a labor - a labor of love - but I was busy handing out flyers for the National Association of Black Social Workers, so I really wasn't standing in the crowd listening and observing. I was busy.

Love Me Listening Busy Black Labor

Your parents leave you too soon and your kids and spouse come along late, but your siblings know you when you are in your most inchoate form.

Parents You Late Know Leave Kids

I know people didn't think I'd become a world champion - even people probably in my own camp, my own team, didn't think I'd become a world champion this quickly.

People Team World Champion Think

You can tell an honest artist from one who's just given all their songs.

You Artist Tell Honest Just Songs

One of its most powerful weapons has always been 'barbarity': 'we' know that 'we' are civilised by contrasting ourselves with those we deem to be un-civilised, with those who do not - or cannot be trusted to - share our values.

Powerful Values Know Always Share

No one in my family was a journalist, and it didn't seem like a real job. Part of me still doesn't think it is.

Family Job Me Think Real Seem

My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Nature Soul Staircase My Soul Heaven

I don't think I have spiritual beliefs in the structured sense - but I believe in the absolute necessity of spirit and a healthy spiritual life. It grew inside me by itself, which is surely the very nature of spirit, and instinctively I protected and nourished it. I also absorbed spirituality by osmosis.

Life Nature Spiritual Me Believe

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way.

Love Good Writing Start Book Back

Technology has enabled an environment where information is constantly fed to us on a real-time basis. You can't slow the feed of information, nor would you want to, but you can control and organize your consumption.

Technology Control Slow Information

My parents and grandparents have always been engaged in teaching or the medical profession or the priesthood, so I've sort of grown up with a sense of complicity in the lives of other people, so there's no virtue in that; it's the way one is raised.

Medical Parents People Way Virtue

I like the idea of going to see the ice caps and the polar bears, because who knows how long they are going to be around for?

Penny Lancaster

Long Ice See Going Because Idea

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