"There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport……" — Ani DiFranco
"There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went."
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227 Quotes by Ani DiFranco
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Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the…
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One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
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There's a certain window of time in the middle of the night out in Middle America where there's no bar…
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I am not an angry girl, but it seems I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find…
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Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to…
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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…
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These days, I find I'm applying a little more patience to my process. If I look back on my work,…
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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.…
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I noticed with older songs that I perform that I'm coming from a different place with them now...it mutates the…
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I love my country, by which I mean I am indebted joyfully to all the people throughout its history, who…
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People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
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If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.
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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should…
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Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married…
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of…
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown…
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre…
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The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked.…
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