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born 1966 United States
Michael Franti (born 21 April 1966) is an American rapper, musician, poet, activist, documentarian, and singer-songwriter, known for his participation in many musical projects, most with a political and social emphasis, including the Beatnigs and the Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy. He is the creator and lead vocalist of his current independent project, Michael Franti & Spearhead, a band that blends hip hop with a variety of other styles including funk, reggae, jazz, folk, and rock.
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Life is too short to make just one decision, music is too loud for just one station, love is too big for just one nation, and God is too big for just one religion!
We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.
Those who start wars never fight them, and those who fight wars never like them.
The harder they hit us, the louder we become, kind of like the skin on a drum.
I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.
Don't fear the nighttime, cause the monsters know that you're divine. Don't fear the sunshine, cause everything's better in the summertime
If your partner happens to be the same sex as you, I don't have a problem with that and I don't think anyone else should.
Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.
Every bit of land is a holy land, and every drop of water is a holy water, and every single child is a son or a daughter of the one earth mama, and the one earth papa.
It shouldn't be a Republican or Democratic issue whether we take care of the environment. That should be a human issue.
My goal has not ever been to change minds, my goal is to open minds.
The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest, the military interest, and the materialistic interests.
People ask me a lot, 'what can one person do,' and I say 'I'm not really sure what one person can due except come together with other people.
You say you're a Christian, cause God made you, you say you're a Muslim cause God made you, you say you're a Hindu and the next man a Jew, but then we all kill each other cause God told us to? Naw!
A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing.
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