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Quotes by Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

I never saw music in terms of men and women or black and white. There was just cool and uncool.

Ive watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

I grew up in Los Angeles in a Quaker family, and for me being Quaker was a political calling rather than a religious one.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Ive been lucky enough that I can gather all sorts of experiences and find inspiration by traveling around and by spending time with people I admire.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isnt owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

In 1967 I entered Harvard as a freshman, confident - in the way that only 17-year-olds are - that I could change the world. My major was African Studies, and my plan was to travel to Tanzania, where President Julius Nyerere was creating a government based on democracy and socialism.