I'm not allowing my perspective to be dictated by the dominant culture. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well,… — Holly Near Female Copy Share Image
If I didn't think and feel the way I think and feel, I couldn't sing the way I sing. And I like… — Holly Near Singing Copy Share Image
My parents encouraged thought. You'll get through life better if you learn how to think. — Holly Near Child Copy Share Image
If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. — Holly Near Failure Copy Share Image
We who are interested in relative truth have to keep digging for it and not let ourselves be sucked under. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
A lot of artists say, I'm not political. People are afraid of this word. — Holly Near Art Copy Share Image
Poverty without a people's government looks like hopelessness, but to see poverty in organized communities is to see relief-in-progress. — Holly Near Community Copy Share Image
Whenever new ideas emerge, songs soon follow, and before long the songs are leading. — Holly Near Ideas Copy Share Image
I am not here for me I am not here to promote my ego I am here to serve the Great Spirit… — Holly Near Ego Copy Share Image
Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to… — Holly Near Children Copy Share Image
In my life, the stories I have heard from my family, my friends, my community, and from willing strangers all over the… — Holly Near Community Copy Share Image
It doesn't take long to sum up the major theses of most popular music: he loves me; he left me; I need… — Holly Near Best friend Copy Share Image
Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know.… — Holly Near Courage Copy Share Image
It's been important to me to be a good activist, a good thinker, a good musician, a good singer, and a good… — Holly Near Activist Copy Share Image
My voice is my instrument. ... It is not in the throat, from where it appears to come. It is in my… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
We are a gentle angry people We are a land of many colors We are gay and straight together We are a… — Holly Near Angry Copy Share Image
In less than a century we experienced great movement. The youth movement! The labor movement! The civil rights movement! The peace movement!… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong? — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Part of keeping space open is not to try to choose a form - to spend more time thinking about content, and… — Holly Near Care Copy Share Image
Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling. — Holly Near Failure Copy Share Image
I like this life. I like it when it's hard, and I like it better when it's not, but I know you… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Language is like songs, like food, like dance-it is the expression of what we think. — Holly Near Expression Copy Share Image
My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility. — Holly Near Creativity Copy Share Image
The women's movement completely changed attitudes all over the world in ways we'll never be able to count. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Like any art, the creation of self is both natural and seemingly impossible. It requires training as well as magic. — Holly Near Art Copy Share Image
Part of being an artist is being willing to be shocked, being willing to be surprised, being willing to be hurt. — Holly Near Art Copy Share Image
Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
When the students were killed at Kent State, the cast voted to do a demonstration from the stage, and I abstained. — Holly Near Demonstration Copy Share Image
I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can… — Holly Near Copy Share Image
Often thoughts are given to me with the sole purpose of giving them away. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
It is essential that men start being interested in and excited by how women think. — Holly Near Copy Share Image
You can kill that man but not his song, When it's sung the whole world round... — Holly Near Copy Share Image
