Amy Ray Quotes

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• I grew up in the South and once you get raised on Jesus, it is kind of always a part of you even if you are a pagan, really.

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  Jesus, Kind, Pagan

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• It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it.

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  Voice, Important, Use

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• It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.

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  World, Today, Don't Change

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• ...and when I am negative, I will be negative only for as long as I have to be, until I can understand it, and then I will be positive...when I hate, I will turn my hatred into energy, when I am angry I will turn my anger into energy...and I will not be complacent.

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  Hate, Long, Hatred

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• You just have to let yourself go and not be worried about what other people are going to say or the things that might come out...Just jump right in full force and be as silly and stupid and adolescent and introspective as you want to be.

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  Stupid, Silly, People

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• Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

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  Strong, Way, Dignity

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• Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

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  Acceptance, Tolerance, Wish

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• Your hatred is rooted in your fear, and your paranoia and insecurities, well they don't belong here.

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  Hatred, Insecurity, Paranoia

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• I do think within any job you do, you have a chance to serve the community.

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  Jobs, Thinking, Community

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• I think art is definitely a great thing, and looked at as a way to open people up.

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  Art, Thinking, People

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• An idealist who couldn't cope becomes cynical.

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  Cynical, Idealist

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• When people say, 'Nothing's coming to me,' they usually don't like what's coming to them.

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  People

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• You can spend time self-identifying and figuring out what you are on that, but at some point, you just want to be who you are and not walk around telling people.

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  Self, People, Be Who You Are

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• Yeah, we appreciate our women followng...and I love women. I mean, I just really love women. I love men, too, but you know it's like sometimes you look up from what you're doing and you go, 'I love women.' There's just something about them and so, just celebrate it.

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  Mean, Men, Appreciate

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• I think the musicians I play with solo do a certain thing that the musicians we play with with the Indigo Girls don't do. It's just a different thing. And it sort of steers my writing in some ways.

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  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  "Another side of Amy Ray" by Todd Leopold, edition.cnn.com. August 6, 2008.

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• People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

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  Gay, Vocabulary, People

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• If you're a teacher, for instance, there are ways to have positive representation of gay people in the classroom. Making sure that, historically, people are noted and archived, and that kids are getting just positive images of people who are gay.

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  Teacher, Kids, Gay

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• The only thing I have going on at a personal level is just the way I knew I was gay and I knew what that meant inside me, but the gender aspect of who I am came later.

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  Gay, Who I Am, Levels

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• My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.

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  People, Starting Over, Feelings

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• Maybe our gender is one thing and our sexuality is another. And that's a cool thing I think.

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  Thinking, Sexuality, Gender

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• When I do solo stuff, when I do anything involving music, it's very collaborative.

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  Stuff, Solo, Involving

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• Your perspective probably depends on where you live.

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  Perspective, Where You Live, Depends

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• There are a lot of people who that you may only nod to; it's better to stop and say hello.

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  People, May, Hello

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• I think you just have to take the bad with the good and you're going to get hurt more, but it's worth it.

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  Hurt, Thinking, Worth It

  "Lung Of Love : A Conversation With Amy Ray". Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 24, 2012.

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• Your actions will follow you full circle round,the higher the leap, I said, the harder the ground!

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  Circles, Full Circle, Action

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