I appreciate that Dolly Parton refused to participate in "dress respectability" and, by her own account, modeled her aesthetic after a town "tramp," who she thought was beautiful. She separated aesthetics from character and understood "classiness" to be about how you treat people, not how you dress.

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Dolly Parton used her success to help kids read and help develop a vaccine during a historical pandemic

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This is the letter kids got at the end of Dolly’s Imagination Library. I defy you to read this and not cry.

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Dolly Parton had a hammer. She had a bell. She had a song. It was the hammer of justice. It was the bell of freedom. It was a song about love between her brothers and her sisters all over this land. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYBc...

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People sometimes ask me what I dreamed the world would look like when I was a kid in kindergarten. I thought I’d get to live in the beloved multi-cultural community envisioned by Sesame Street, Mister Rodgers’ Neighborhood, The Electric Company & Zoom. Apparently, that was MAGA’s nightmare.

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