Top 25 Anohni Quotes

Women are women, and so are men, and the delusion that we are spiritually separate from or are about to spiritually separate from the rest of existence is a psychosis that spins us into virulence.

I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.

When we are not extracting wealth from nature, we are extracting it from the working and middle classes.

The top end are still making bucket loads while maintaining the illusion of the American dream: that if you work hard enough, you can make a fortune. Meanwhile, the working and middle classes have been hollowed out of the system.

The income streams of musicians have all been upstreamed into the pockets of computer corporations. Sound recordings are little more than free crackerjacks inside every computer or cellphone that you buy.

You see artists hailed as a new generation of independents, only to be enlisted to leverage product.

My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.

In the United States, it is all about money: those who have it and those who don’t.

More and more – especially the younger generation – are functioning outside the binary concept of gender. That’s just next-generation stuff.

When a person only knows abuse, they shift their whole emotional and spiritual life into the context of that abuse. If all you’ve ever known is to be hurt by the one that pretends to love you, then many times you go to the one who hurts you for love.

America has no real idea of the extent to which it abuses its authority and power.

What’s subcultural now is literally just a line of thinking, which is trying to be eyes wide open, in my view. It’s no longer attached to a specific demographic or specifically downtrodden groups of people; it’s much more free-floating, and you don’t know where you’re going to find it.

We’ve been playing in the sandbox of creation for millions of years. We ruin one environment, we move on to the next – manifest destiny. Now it’s hitting us collectively: Our mother‘s life is in our hands.

Artists have different responsibilities in different eras. But at this point, I really feel like it’s all hands on deck. An artist that’s fiddle-faddling in opaque, gossamer gestures – I mean it’s fine to do that, totally fine, but there’s no time left. We don’t have the luxury of time anymore.

People trust my voice. And my expertise, honestly, is not political science. It’s emotion and expression and sort of presence, you know?

I would never undermine a person’s interpretation of a creative work.

You need money to have advocacy in America. People that don’t have money don’t have advocacy.

We’re all just waiting for our sugar lumps. That’s how life has been structured for us.

Participation in and of itself is an act against hopelessness. Speaking up is a gesture against hopelessness.

It’s a feminine universe, and every person who has ever tried to convince you otherwise is doing little more than pounding on his mother’s breast, enraged by the predicament he faces as a leaf, dangling from the tree of life.

For millennia, men have enslaved women and attempted to appropriate female creative power, re-casting themselves as gods and creators. This assault continues today in the forms of ruthless wealth and mineral extraction, genetic engineering, mass surveillance, and war mongering.

Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species‘ desperate course.

For me, a theatre is a dark place. It should be mysterious; it’s where we go to get away from all the utilitarian things we do in the daylight.

Subjugation of women and of the Earth are one and the same.

As Donald Trump and his cabinet now demonstrate, the skills encouraged in men by their biologies and the tools that boys master in the playground have not equipped them to deal with the unprecedented global crisis we are now facing.