Anohni

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

— Anohni

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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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We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us.

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In our lifetime, we're going to see fifty percent of the world's species go extinct. We're already seeing this radical rise in…

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Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has…

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If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.

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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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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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I had this voice when I was in high school, except nobody thought much of it then. I developed it by imitating…

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Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate…

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America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize…

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Reality has been so politicized such that people truly believe, mostly, that there are two versions of reality: a conservative and a…

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I think for me, at the end of the day, just because of who I am, my priority is the biosphere. That…

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The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough,…

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I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary.…

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We're being challenged to do something so profound, it's unprecedented in the history of our species, and there couldn't be more at…

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

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

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

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

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

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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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