Emily Saliers Quotes

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

Whenever I think about all the things I appreciate in life, I also think about my privileges, as well. Try to keep that all in balance. Gratitude for what I have, trying to be part of movements that make it easy for people who have it harder than they ever should have it.

Music makes me alive in a way that nothing quite does. Good art, good film, good books, good dance. Exhibitions, history. Nature makes me feel alive. Georgia in the rain - that makes me feel alive. Compassion makes me feel alive. Hard fought victories for social rights.

I had a sister who died and my mother passed away. I know that grief comes in waves. When deep grief hits, I know that it hurts like hell, and then you get a little bit of a respite, and then it comes back, and it hurts like hell. I know it can be survived.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

The truth that people are missing about certain things, you know when they get fearful and they get hateful, and they repress other peoples, is the greatest truth of all, you know, the truth of love and understanding and clarity about all those issues. And it's like, one day, one day, everybody's gonna know, myself included, over certain things. But, so it's like, it's alright, you know, you hate me now, but that's cool, because I see a better day and I know that there's a higher truth, and you're wrong about hating me because I'm gay.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

The less I seek my source for some definitive, the closer I am to fine.

The sweetest part is acting after making a decision.

If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do.

Now I know a refuge never grows from a chin in a hand in a thoughtful pose gotta tend the earth if you want a rose.

It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

What was once your pain, will be your home.

Unjust use of force, strength, and brutality. Those are the forces that make me feel vulnerable.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

You will taste a way of life profoundly nourishing and from your tongue may spring a song or poem or sentence or word or maybe nothing but silence. Silence only the heart can turn to song.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

I cry when I feel like crying.

And there's always retrospect to light a clearer path.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

I was in a church choir early on and that really helped me musically in terms of chops, learning how to sing harmonies.

So we must love, while these moments are still called today, take part in the pain of this passion play, stretching our youth as we must, until we are ashes to dust, until time makes history of us.