Emily Saliers
Emily Saliers
Emily Saliersis an American singer-songwriter and member of the Indigo Girls. Saliers plays lead guitar as well as banjo, piano, mandolin, ukulele, bouzouki and many other instruments...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth22 July 1963
CityNew Haven, CT
CountryUnited States of America
silence violence rage
...science and violence turned silence to rage.
discrimination bad-things
Discrimination is a bad bad bad thing.
dream broken justice
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.
paper study grammar
Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.
thinking insecurity prejudice
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.
responsibility fighting artist
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.
done
Don't do to someone else what you wouldn't want done to you.