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Buffy Sainte-Marie
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“And he's fighting for Canada, he's fighting for France, / He's fighting for the U.S.A. / And he's fighting for the Russians, and he's fighting for Japan, / And he thinks we'll put an end to war this way ... / Without him Caesar would have stood alone. / He's the one who gives his body as a weapon of the war: / And without him all this killin' can't go on.”
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“You have to sniff out joy, keep your nose to the joy-trail.”
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“Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel.”
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“'Ah, what can I do?' say a powerless few, / With a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye, / Can't you see that their poverty's profiting you?”
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“Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.”
Buffy Sainte-Marie, Canadian-U.S. Cree singer/songwriter, musician, composer, artist, educator, pacifist, activist
(1941)
Born: Beverly Sainte-Marie.