Ani DiFranco

I'm home in New Orleans!

— Ani DiFranco

...I try to laugh at whatever life brings...

— Ani DiFranco

“Everyone is a fuckin' Napoleon.”

— Ani DiFranco

I'm not one of those people who has an act.

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I have earned my disillusionment.

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I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.

— Ani DiFranco

We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls.

— Ani DiFranco

TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.

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If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.

— Ani DiFranco

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

— Ani DiFranco

Who says I like right angles? These are not my laws, these are not my rules.

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Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.

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The world is my oyster. The road is my home. And I know that I'm better off Alone.

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Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

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Your bones have been my bedframe and your flesh has been my pillow. And I'm waiting for sleep.

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Some people's minds we're not going to change. But if we can't, we need to bring more positive voices into the discussion.

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Sometimes the beauty is easy. Sometimes you don't have to try at all. Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a…

— Ani DiFranco

They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s…

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Some people wear their smile like a disguise. Those people who smile a lot, watch their eyes. I know 'cause I'm like…

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Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like…

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Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own…

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Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.

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i do it for the joy it brings because i'm a joyful girl because the world owes me nothing and we owe…

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I knew naturally as a child not to forfeit my creativity to a world that's all laid out for me. I'll look…

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“Science chases money and money chases its tail and the best minds of my generation can't make bail. But the bacteria are…

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now the profile of our country looks a little less hard nosed / but that picket line persisted and that clinic's since…

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Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I…

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Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and…

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I did a lot of work with myself over the course of being pregnant and the first few months of being pregnant.…

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My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to…

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You broke me bodily. The heart ain't the half of it, And I'll never learn to laugh at it In my good…

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I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who have fought…

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I feel like we need to understand feminism more as a tool to mediate, counteract, to ultimately defeat patriarchy and restore balance…

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I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very…

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My feminism has evolved way beyond self-empowerment and I see feminism as a path to peace on earth. The fundamental imbalance that…

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Criticism is hard for me but people find hard to believe because they think I'm very tough, very strident, that I tell…

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These days I keep a journal, so I'm constantly sketching down my thoughts, or lines that come to me...ideas for songs. And…

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People who are just starting out are always sort of coming to me for advice as the example of "independent girl," and…

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Music has as many roles as people make it. I traveled to Burma once years ago to witness the people's struggle for…

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