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" For decades, my identity was political, but I've come to understand that there's no political solution when you're dealing with someone else's rules. "

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" For us, it's a matter of just staying alive and getting the best deal we can now. Eventually, this will all straighten out. It may be two generations away or 10 generations away, but time is irrelevant in that sense. As long as we, as a people, stay alive, we will survive. "

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" The whole point is to take from our native culture and from contemporary culture without using one art form to mimic the other, so that our native identity remains the native identity, the contemporary identity remains the contemporary identity, and the mixing of these two musical identities creates a third musical identity. "

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" I'm not a musician making words to go with my music. "

" When one lives in a society where people can no longer rely on the institutions to tell them the truth, the truth must come from culture and art. "

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" The average human being in America is going through some sort of hard times - physical, emotional, psychological. Everybody's carrying a bit of bone days in them. "

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