Ani DiFranco Quotes
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And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.
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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -Other days the line tends to deviate.
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Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep-But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;Well, you know, there's no escape.That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.
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Girl, next time he wants to knowWhat your problem isNext time he wants to knowWhere the anger comes fromJust tell him this time the problem's hisTell him the anger just comesIt just comes.
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I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
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And God help you if you are a phoenix, and you dare to rise up from the ash.A thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy, while you're just flying past.
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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.
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I used to be a superhero.No one could touch me, not even myself.You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into,And now look at me, I am just like everybody else.
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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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I’m going to go ahead and go boldlyCuz a little bird told meThat jumping is easyThat falling is funRight up ‘til you hit the sidewalkShivering and stunned.
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My life may not be something specialBut it's never been lived before.
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Art is why I get up in the morning; my definition ends there.You know it doesn't seem fair,That I'm living for something I can't even define.And there you are right there, in the mean time.
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I still define myself by the places that I've been.
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There's a crowd of people harbored in every person, there are so many roles that we play.And you've decided to love me for eternity. I'm still deciding who I want to be today'
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I know there is strength in the differences between us,And I know there is comfort where we overlap.
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I always feel I have to take a stand,And there's always someone on handTo hate me for standing there.I always feel I have to open my mouth,And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
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I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,And long enough to see some change.
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When we patch things up,They say a job well done.But when we ask the question whyWhere did the rips come from?,They say we are subversive,And extreme, of course.We are just trying to track a problem to its source.
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People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.'
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I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
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You've got your whole life to do something,And that's not very long.So why don't you give me a callWhen you're willing to fightFor what you think is real,For what you think is right.
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We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,When we're not just toeing the line.
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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 handshake.Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.
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They put you in your place, and they tell you to behaveBut no one can be free until we're all on even grade.