Emily Saliers Quotes

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.

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

No way construction of this tricky plan was built by other than a greater hand.

I have faith that my life is in good hands. I honestly try to see how I can grow from uncomfortable circumstances.

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 prize is always worth the rocky ride.

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.

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

I give it up to women who have the power to keep their spirit alive under very difficult circumstances.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.