I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to … - Patti Smith

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Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Patti Smith

I always wanted to be an artist, writer and poet since I was seven, and one has to live long enough to evolve as an artist and do one's finest work.

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We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

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That's what artists do, that's what poets do - we all do it. We start with something, and sometimes we destroy everything that we've made in order to get to the core place where we started from.

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My mission is to communicate, to wake people up, to give them my energy and accept theirs. We're all in it together, and I respond emotionally as a worker, a mother, an artist, and a human being with a voice. We all have a voice. We have the responsibility to exercise it, to use it.

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I daydream a lot - that's how I get my ideas. If I'm sitting in a café, I'm not on my phone because I want to hear my mind. I think that those periods of small solitude that we are really losing are so important.

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Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

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It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.

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One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

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