I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.
Lucy DacusRead
I like to think of hope as a fact and something that wins out always. Whether you're hopeful or not, actually, you do get through what you're in the middle of. When you're in it, you don't feel like that's possible. But time and time again, we're proven wrong.
Interpretation
Hope is a powerful force that helps us overcome challenges, even when we don't believe we can.
Lucy Dacus captures the essence of hope as something tangible and victorious, suggesting that even in difficult times, we can find a way through our struggles. The quote implies that despite the overwhelming feeling of despair when facing challenges, time has shown us that hope can lead us to brighter days, proving our doubts wrong.
In practice
Using this quote during a motivational speech to inspire resilience in tough times.
I value the people who are willing to make themselves vulnerable and share work that is sensitive and maybe even hard to sing sometimes. Because that's the music that provides the most solace and solidarity to the world.
You don't have to make something in order to retain your identity as an artist or a writer or a creative person. A lot of people think they have to be producing in order to maintain that identity.
When you're a kid, you learn whatever your parents think until you start taking in media. Because all your friends are your age as well, media is the third parent that you ever have. So I think about that a lot, what visual imagery is teaching us, and media in general having a huge impact.
You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.
My daddy thought - no, he expected - that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He was correct in his belief because he had lived in an America of continual social progress, depression followed by prosperity, segregation by integration, and so on.
Strawberry Fields is anywhere you want to go
The winds of grace are always blowing, but you have to raise the sail.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
It's not too late at all. You just don't yet know what you are capable of.
When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
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