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" I hope I inspire people to dream bigger than what they are living, but a dream within their reach. "
Michael Franti
Dream
Living
People
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" The U.S. has historically been the world's largest contributor to climate change. "
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" My usual day is I get up around 11 o'clock and do yoga and then eat afterwards. Then I have sound check and play soccer and do running with the guys in the band after sound check, and then do the show and eat dinner after the show and usually get to bed around 3 o'clock by the time we get everybody on the bus and get rolling. "
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" Jamaica's a country of great dichotomy. On the one hand you have a tourist industry with great beaches and resorts, but on the other you have such great poverty and the violence that goes along with that. "
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" I think my soul is intact, but my methods of reaching people are completely different. "
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Think
Different
People
" Music has the power to bring people together like no other art form. "
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" I went to Iraq because I wanted to see what one year of occupation had done to Iraqi society, and I went to the West Bank and Gaza Strip because I wanted to see what three generations of occupation had done to Palestinian society. I found a lot more hopelessness and despair in Palestine. "
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Done
" I don't know if it's so grand that I can change the entire world, but I know that I can help one person. So that's the goal. "
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Change
" I'm a news junkie who's constantly reading newspapers and magazines. I look around and see what's happening in the world. "
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" My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. "
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Said
You
Hurt
" The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action. "
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Action
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" I really believe that, as an artist, my opportunity to help to bring about awakening is one that should come from a personal process that someone has, and not from me telling somebody that this is the way it is. "
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Help
Believe
Me
" There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day. "
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Way
Sun
People
" To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up. "
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Government
Say
Giving Up
" It doesn't matter if you're black, white, gay, straight, come from different countries, different language... every single person is significant and is meaningful. "
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You
Black
Gay
" During my travels in Iraq, Israel, Gaza, Brazil, Indonesia, Japan, Europe and all over the United States, I have seen and heard the voices of people who want change. They want the stabilization of the economy, education and healthcare for all, renewable energy and an environmental vision with an eye on generations to come. "
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Environmental
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" The way the music comes to you starts to affect how you listen to music. When you're a kid, it's 'Does it rock? Does it make me feel good? Does it make me tap my feet? Does it make me go to sleep?' "
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Feel Good
Good
Me
" I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety. "
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World
Angry
Change
" When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers. "
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Answers
Politics
Started
" We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace. "
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Pieces
Bomb
World
" My house was filled with music. We had a piano, and my brothers and sisters played instruments. Even though I was around it, I played basketball. "
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House
Piano
Though
" Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience. "
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Women
Need
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" The rap community has been singled out as more homophobic than other groups, but I don't think that's right. It's homophobic, all right, but no more so than the heavy-metal community or the Hollywood community or any other community. "
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More
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Hollywood
" Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose. "
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Sunshine
Powerful
Music
" San Francisco has always been a haven for misfits and weirdos. I'm both of those, which is why I came here. "
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Here
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Always
" I drive a hybrid. It's a Ford Escape. That's my only car. "
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Escape
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Ford
" If we do not change our negative habits toward climate change, we can count on worldwide disruptions in food production, resulting in mass migration, refugee crises and increased conflict over scarce natural resources like water and farm land. This is a recipe for major security problems. "
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Change
Conflict
Problems
" When someone can't afford to wear shoes, it's not just about them not having shoes on that day. It's about a cycle of poverty that exists within their community. "
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Day
Shoes
Community
" Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good. "
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Help
Good
Poverty
" After a show, I'll get the 16-year-old white kid whose lip is pierced, his head is shaved and his parents hate him, and the young gangster from the screwed-up 'hood, and they say that now they realize there's someone out there who thinks like they do. "
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" Sometimes the hardest thing to do is just to stay human. "
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Stay
Just
Hardest