Emily Saliers Quotes

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• Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

  Emily Saliers

  Responsibility, Fighting, Artist

  "An Interview with the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers". Interview with Marissa Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2009.

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• Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

  Emily Saliers

  Art, Rain, Book

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

  Emily Saliers

  Eye, Laughing, Cry

  "Don’t Take Yourself Too Seriously" by Mike Robbins, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Engaging in new creative projects keeps me energized. I feel deeply grateful for all of the opportunities that life has given me.

  Emily Saliers

  Grateful, Opportunity, Creative

  "Emily Saliers: Growing as an artist, helping the environment, and doing things that scare her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

  Emily Saliers

  Religion, Source, Fine

  "After 20 Years, The Indigo Girls Go Indie". Interview with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. April 19, 2009.

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• And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.

  Emily Saliers

  Light, Retrospect, Path

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• Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep that all in balance. Gratitude for what I have, trying to be part of movements that make it easy for people who have it harder than they ever should have it.

  Emily Saliers

  Gratitude, Thinking, Should Have

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.

  Emily Saliers

  Mother, Hurt, Grief

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

  Emily Saliers

  Dream, People, Broken

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

  Emily Saliers

  Heart, Love Is, Self

  "Emily Saliers: Growing as an artist, helping the environment, and doing things that scare her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

  Emily Saliers

  Thoughtful, Hands, Rose

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• I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

  Emily Saliers

  Love Is, People, Alive

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

  Emily Saliers

  Decision, Acting, Sweetest

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• Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

  Emily Saliers

  Paper, Study, Grammar

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• The truth that people are missing about certain things, you know when they get fearful and they get hateful, and they repress other peoples, is the greatest truth of all, you know, the truth of love and understanding and clarity about all those issues. And it's like, one day, one day, everybody's gonna know, myself included, over certain things. But, so it's like, it's alright, you know, you hate me now, but that's cool, because I see a better day and I know that there's a higher truth, and you're wrong about hating me because I'm gay.

  Emily Saliers

  Hate, Gay, Issues

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• If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

  Emily Saliers

  Writing, Ifs

  "Emily Saliers: Growing as an artist, helping the environment, and doing things that scare her". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.

  Emily Saliers

  Song, Spring, Heart

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• I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

  Emily Saliers

  Thinking, Insecurity, Prejudice

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• It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

  Emily Saliers

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

  Emily Saliers

  Brutality, Use, Unjust

  "Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls | Outspoken. Unapologetic. A Voice for Women". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• What was once your pain, will be your home.

  Emily Saliers

  Pain, Home

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• Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

  Emily Saliers

  Discrimination, Bad Things

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• Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

  Emily Saliers

  Fall, Eye, Anorexia

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• I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

  Emily Saliers

  Church Choir, Harmony, Term

  "An Interview with the Indigo Girls’ Emily Saliers". Interview with Marissa Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 1, 2009.

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• You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

  Emily Saliers

  Thinking, Made, My Thoughts

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