Ani DiFranco Quotes
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Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
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Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.
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I think you're the least fucked-up person I've ever met,And that may be as close to the real thing as I'm ever gonna get.
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Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world.
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They say that the truth will set you freeBut then again, so will a lie...It depends if you're trying to get to the promised landOr if you're just trying to get by.
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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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We have to be able to criticize what we love,Say what we have to say,'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
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I am writing graffiti on your body.I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
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So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughterServing empires of style and carbonated sugar waterAnd the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mallAnd our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.
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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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I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..
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I think I'm done gunnin to get closer.To some imagined bliss.I gotta knuckle down.And just be ok with this.
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Life is a b movie.It's stupid and it's strange,A directionless story,And the dialogue is lame.But in the he said, she said,Sometimes there's some poetry,If you turn your back long enough,And let it happen naturally.
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'Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories.See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me.It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road,But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.
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But what if no one's watching?What if when we're dead, we are just dead?What if there's no time to lose?What if there's things we gotta do,Things that need to be said?
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If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.
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My thighs have been involved in many accidents,And now I can't get insured,And I don't need to be lured by you.My cunt is built like a wound that won't heal,And now you don't have to askBecause you know how I feel.
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I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.
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The windows of my soul are made of one way glassDon't bother looking into my eyesIf there's something you want to know - just ask.
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I remember now how our bright spring green deepened.With the years the seasons changed,And we were lush as the underside of August.
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I am looking for the holes,The holes in your jeansBecause I want to know:Are they worn out in the seat,Or are they worn out in the knees?
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Now I wonder who is gonna be president: Tweedle Dumb, or Tweedle Dumber-And who is gonna have the big block buster box office this summer.
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So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent.And it broke in three places when it finally went.It wanted only to say what it meant.So it suffered every punishment.
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They're gonna be mad at us.They're gonna be mad at me and you.They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.