Ani DiFranco Quotes
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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 am writing graffiti on your body.I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
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If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.
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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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Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.
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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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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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They put you in your place, and they tell you to behaveBut no one can be free until we're all on even grade.
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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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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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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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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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We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,When we're not just toeing the line.
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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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Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world.
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She says 'Do I know you?' I say 'Well, no, not biblically,But I've been waiting for you to come and talk to me.I have been playing too many of those boy-girl games.'She says, 'Honey, you are safe here. This is a girl-girl thing.'
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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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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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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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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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Freedom and democracy,That's the word from Washington every day.Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés,And people are expendable along the way.
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They can call me crazy if I failAll the chance that I needIs one in a millionAnd they can call me brilliantIf I succeed…
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I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..
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And everything seems to have gone terribly wrong that can.But one breath at a time is an acceptable plan,She tells herself.