Anohni

I can't be separated from nature. I am one of her faces.

— Anohni

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

— Anohni

I don't think that I'm a lone voice. I'm not even interested in being a lone voice.

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Changing my name has been like a formal rite of passage.

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Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself.

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I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work.

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Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.

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In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don't.

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I was drawn to people that were expressing feeling because that was what was taboo in my family, expressing feeling. And that…

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We're still expecting capitalism to solve problems: 'Maybe if we sell enough oil, we can give some profits to an environmental agency!'…

— Anohni

People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?

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The man-made apocalypse we are facing was not written in the stars; it is a notion that grew like mould from the…

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My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.

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Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

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As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking…

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You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don't have money don't have advocacy.

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As Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master…

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I didn't set out to be a singer. Actually, the earliest creative efforts I made were drawings copied from comics we got…

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The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free…

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When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all…

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We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next…

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I've always been somewhat uncomfortable on the stage, and I've always felt like physically having to negotiate my own presence as a…

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Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist…

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For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues…

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Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman.

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Yes, I'm ashamed of my participation as a taxpayer in American drone bombing.

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Hopelessness is a feeling. It's not a fact.

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I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.

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If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto…

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This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out.

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For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it's where we go to get away from all the…

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As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully…

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God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined.

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When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

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At the end of the day, the sovereignty of maleness is an illusion. In essence and in origin, we are all entirely…

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You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

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There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for…

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More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff.

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Rage is a really fun place to dance from - expressions of anger sublimated into something beautiful are invigorating, especially if you…

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I've always been transgender, and I always will be. Having said that, my spirit is feminine. If you had to divide humanity…

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