“I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.”

—  Michael Franti

Interview, live at Coachella http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YMwcXBePqE
Context: I've never really been into flags of any kind, cause flags can bring people together, but they always bring people together against other people, and I don't really consider myself to be a patriot in the sense that I say, 'okay, this is my nation,' I consider myself to be a child of this whole planet.

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