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Anohni
Anohni
English Musician
Born: 1971
Being Life Nature People Women You
Related authors: David Bowie Elton John Harry Styles John Lennon Mick Jagger Ozzy Osbourne Paul McCartney Yungblud
Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness. Anohni
Gesture Hopelessness Participation Up Itself Against Act Speaking
Life is short, and there's something to be said for being true to yourself. Anohni
Life Yourself Life Is Short Something True Said Short Being
We've been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next - manifest destiny. Now it's hitting us collectively: Our mother's life is in our hands. Anohni
Life Mother Move On Creation Our Ruin Destiny Collectively Environment Been Years Hands Hitting Move Manifest Sandbox Us Next Now Millions Playing Millions Of Years
God - God's the wrong word - goddess or nature will conspire to transform you in a way you couldn't have imagined. Anohni
God Nature You Word Will Goddess Way Wrong Wrong Word Transform Imagined
For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering. Anohni
Today War Creative Women Wealth Men Power Engineering Extraction Appropriate Mineral Enslaved Ruthless Attempted Mass Genetic Genetic Engineering Female Surveillance Gods Forms Themselves Assault Creators Millennia
It's a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother's breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life. Anohni
Life You Mother Every Universe Tree Tree Of Life Otherwise Enraged Tried Faces More Pounding He Leaf Feminine Doing His Than Person Predicament Little Convince Who Ever
This illusion that a lower class has less intelligence than a higher class is a complete fake-out. Anohni
Class Intelligence Illusion Complete Higher Than Lower Lower Class Less
As a transgendered artist, I have always occupied a place outside of the mainstream. I have gladly paid a price for speaking my truth in the face of loathing and idiocy. Anohni
Truth Face Loathing My Truth Price Gladly Outside Mainstream Idiocy Occupied Always Artist Place Paid Speaking
People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It's emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know? Anohni
You Science Trust People Political Honestly Voice Emotion Know Sort Political Science Expertise Expression Presence
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 the world's temperature that was predicted. Anohni
World Radical Our Temperature See Seeing Rise Percent Lifetime Go Going Predicted Fifty Species Extinct
America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power. Anohni
Power Idea Abuse Real America Authority Which Extent
We're all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That's how life has been structured for us. Anohni
Life Waiting Sugar Our Has-Been Structured How Been Just Us
I was never going to become a beautiful, passable woman, and I was never going to be a man. It's a quandary. But the trans condition is a beautiful mystery; it's one of nature's best ideas. Anohni
Beautiful Best Nature Man Woman Become Be A Man Mystery Never Ideas Condition Going
The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy. Anohni
Buy You Musicians Free Every Corporations Inside Pockets More Recordings Computer Sound Been Than Little Income Streams
You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product. Anohni
You Generation Independents See Only New New Generation Artists Product Leverage Enlisted
Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it's all hands on deck. An artist that's fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures - I mean it's fine to do that, totally fine, but there's no time left. We don't have the luxury of time anymore. Anohni
Time Luxury Responsibilities Fine Totally Point No Time Opaque Feel Like Eras Left Gestures Hands Hands-On Artist Artists Different Anymore Deck Mean Really
My idea with '4 Degrees' was to articulate, for a minute, not my ideal vision of how I wanted to perceive my relationship to nature but the reality. If I could give a voice to my behavior, what would that voice be? Taking planes, enjoying first-world fossil fuel, an addict of first-world comfort. Anohni
Nature Relationship Reality Vision Behavior Addict Would Degrees Minute Perceive Give Voice Could Taking Idea Ideal Comfort How Articulate Wanted Fuel Planes If I Could Fossil Fossil Fuel Enjoying
More and more - especially the younger generation - are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That's just next-generation stuff. Anohni
Generation Binary Gender More More And More Outside Stuff Concept Just Younger Younger Generation
I would never undermine a person's interpretation of a creative work. Anohni
Work Creative Interpretation Would Never Undermine Person Creative Work
Look at the American history of slavery. Can you say that hundreds of years later that has been eased? That pain has not yet been eased. Anohni
History You Pain Later Hundreds Say Hundreds Of Years Eased Has-Been Look Been Years American American History Slavery
What's subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It's no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it's much more free-floating, and you don't know where you're going to find it. Anohni
You Eyes People Thinking Find More Attached Open Longer Know Demographic Line Trying Going Just Where Literally Which Much View Groups Now Specific Specifically Wide
If Hillary's the first woman president, well, in England we already know what a Margaret Thatcher is. It's not an end unto itself to be the first woman president. Anohni
Woman First President Be The First Know Hillary Unto Well Woman President End Itself Thatcher England Margaret Margaret Thatcher
As an artist, you tend to identify your sphere of influence and try to employ that as best you can to hopefully be useful. Anohni
Best You Try Sphere Hopefully Tend Employ Identify Artist Influence Your Useful
When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes. Anohni
Nature Wealth Classes Middle Working
America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence. Anohni
Power Country Control Decency Sphere Borders Physical More Only More Power Pursuit Contained Longer Within Advocate America Maximize Human Influence Want Usefulness Biodiversity Preservation
Boy George always told me to stop noodling; he wanted me to belt like Ethel Merman. Anohni
Me He Like Boy Always George Stop Wanted Belt
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