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.

Bonnie Raitt
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  1. We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. - Walter Mosley

  2. One day spent with someone you love can change everything. - Mitch Albom

  3. There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,... - Douglas Adams

  4. If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it. - C.s. Lewis

  5. People die, I think, but your relationship with them doesn't. It continues and is ever-changing. - Jandy Nelson

More Quotes By Bonnie Raitt
  1. Religion is for those who are scared of hell, and spirituality is for those who have been there.

  2. I'm happy to say that at 62, I think I've reached that point where stuff doesn't bother me as much, and my gratitude level has gone way up, especially having gone through the loss that I've had, and losing so many of the great artists...

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

  4. I've watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me.

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

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