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
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.

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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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I still define myself by the places that I've been.

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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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We discovered we are both pleasantly furious half of the time,
When we're not just toeing the line.

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And their eyes are all asking
Are you in or are you out?
And I think, oh man
What is this about?
Tonight you can't put me
Up on any shelf
Cuz I came here alone
And I'm gonna leave by myself.

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

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

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All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

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Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.

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

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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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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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They put you in your place, and they tell you to behave
But no one can be free until we're all on even grade.

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Because I know the biggest crime
Is just to throw up your hands
And say This has nothing to do with me,
I just want to live as comfortably as I can.

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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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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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So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove.
I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove.
It took me too long to realize that I don't take good pictures
Cuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.

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Girl, next time he wants to know
What your problem is
Next time he wants to know
Where the anger comes from
Just tell him this time the problem's his
Tell him the anger just comes
It just comes.

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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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I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in-between.

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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.

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

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

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