Michael Franti

My parents said sticks and stones will break your bones but names will never hurt you. But I always felt a sense of exhilaration after a fight; it was the names that really hurt me. ↗

— Michael Franti

#always #bones #break #exhilaration #felt

No life's worth more than any other, no sister worth less than any brother. ↗

— Michael Franti

#brother #less #life #more #other

The world can't have a global solution to climate change with U.S. action alone; and the world can't have a global solution without U.S. action. ↗

— Michael Franti

#alone #change #climate #climate change #global

There are so many things to be worried about, and I wanted to make a record that people could put on, and it would lift them up the way the sun did for me each day. ↗

— Michael Franti

#could #day #did #each #i

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace. ↗

— Michael Franti

#into #peace #pieces #world

When I first started out, I thought it was enough to make an angry song that pointed out the problems of the world. ↗

— Michael Franti

#enough #first #i #make #out