"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved"
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The phrasing “seeming hostility” is the tell. Flack is sensitive to performance, to the way outrage can be stylized, marketed, even safely consumed. In the streaming era, anger sells; it also scrolls past. By putting “my hope is” up front, she frames herself as an elder not pleading for politeness but for follow-through. It’s a generational challenge: if the soundtrack is already furious, why isn’t the civic life matching its volume?
Context matters here. Flack came up when pop and soul regularly brushed against mass politics - civil rights, Vietnam, the long argument over what public life should be. For her, music wasn’t only personal confession; it was a public instrument. So the subtext is a critique of fragmentation: artists competing for individual authenticity while the conditions producing the anger remain intact. “Some sort of coalition” is intentionally open-ended, less manifesto than invitation: cross-genre, cross-community, messy on purpose.
It’s also a reminder that protest music is easiest at the level of vibe. Flack is asking for the harder conversion: turning cultural heat into sustained political leverage.
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Flack, Roberta. (2026, January 16). My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-hope-is-that-out-of-all-the-anger-and-seeming-102474/
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Flack, Roberta. "My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-hope-is-that-out-of-all-the-anger-and-seeming-102474/.
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"My hope is that out of all the anger and seeming hostility that we hear in some of today's music will come some sort of coalition that will become politically involved." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/my-hope-is-that-out-of-all-the-anger-and-seeming-102474/. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.
