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.

Ani DiFranco
I am looking for the holes,
The holes in your jeans
Because I want to know:
Are they worn out in the seat,
Or are they worn out in the knees?

Ani DiFranco
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.

Ani DiFranco
Love is a piano dropped out a four story window
And you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Ani DiFranco
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

Ani DiFranco
Because the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world.

Ani DiFranco
When I look around I think this, this is good enough; And I laugh at whatever life brings because when I look down, I just miss all the good stuff and when I look up, I just trip over things.

Ani DiFranco
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.

Ani DiFranco
I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.

Ani DiFranco
You know
Taken out of context I must
Seem so strange.

Ani DiFranco
I am writing graffiti on your body.
I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.

Ani DiFranco
Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -
Other days the line tends to deviate.

Ani DiFranco
When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand,
And I like to take up space just because I can,
And I use my dress to wipe up my drink.
I care less and less what people think.

Ani DiFranco
They can call me crazy if I fail
All the chance that I need
Is one in a million
And they can call me brilliant
If I succeed…

Ani DiFranco
I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..

Ani DiFranco
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army,
But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.

Ani DiFranco
But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

Ani DiFranco
Love sets fire to your schedule,
And then calls an end to time.

Ani DiFranco
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?

Ani DiFranco
Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.

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Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

Ani DiFranco
My country tis of thee,
To take swings at each other on talk-show TV.

Ani DiFranco
My life may not be something special
But it's never been lived before.

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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 natured way. In fact, I'm laughing less in general, But I learned a lot at my own funeral. And I knew you'd be the death of me, So I guess that's the price I pay.

Ani DiFranco
And we hold these truths to be self-evident:
Number one— George W. Bush is not president.
Number two— America is not a true democracy.
And, Number three— the media is not fooling me.

Ani DiFranco