“I hate a song that makes you think that you are not any
good. I hate a song that makes you
think that you are just born to lose.
Bound to lose. No good to
nobody. No good for nothing. Because you are too old or too young or
too fat or too slim too ugly or too this or too that. Songs that run you down or poke fun at you on account of
your bad luck or hard traveling. I
am out to fight those songs to my very last breath of air and my last drop of
blood. I am out to sing songs that
will prove to you that this is your world and that if it has hit you pretty
hard and knocked you for a dozen loops, no matter what color, what size you
are, how you are built, I am out to sing the songs that make you take pride in
yourself and in your work. And the
songs that I sing are made up for the most part by all sorts of folks just
about like you.”
folk music legend, Woody
Guthrie
“Guthrie’s words really resonate with me; the idea that there
are these stories out there – they’re everywhere, actually — stories that
we’re sold and sold and sold, and so we assume they must be true. But the stories we’re sold are nothing
like our own story, so we begin to assume there’s something wrong with our
story, and eventually we start thinking there must be something wrong with us.”
Jennifer, of the great speech at my daughter’s school
click here for more of her wisdom
thank you, Jennifer. xx