Holly Near

I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. ↗

— Holly Near

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If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like singing the way I sing. ↗

— Holly Near

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It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think. ↗

— Holly Near

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It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good entertainer. You can't do it all, but I have walked those delicate lines as best I know how. ↗

— Holly Near

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Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. ↗

— Holly Near

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Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. ↗

— Holly Near

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My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility. ↗

— Holly Near

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My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think. ↗

— Holly Near

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My parents had been involved in the labor movement; if we'd grown up in the city, we would have been red-diaper babies. ↗

— Holly Near

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Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point. ↗

— Holly Near

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