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We Are Nature. We Are Nature Seeing Nature. The Red-winged Blackbird Flies In Us.

I Think Artists Can Go To A Level Of Vision That Can Often Save Us From A Situation Which Seems To Have No Solution Whatsoever.

Even In The Grimmest Of Circumstances, A Shift In Perspective Can Create Startling Change.

We Keep Secrets From Ourselves That All Along We Know.

In My Lifetime I Have Seen Democracy Begin To Expand, Not Only To Include Those Who Have Been Excluded, But To Provide A Listening Arena, A Vocabulary, An Intelligent Reception For Stories That Have Been Buried. Not Just Stories Of The Disenfranchised And The Marginalized, But Marginalized And Disenfranchised Histories Even In The Lives Of The Accepted And The Privileged.