Ani DiFranco Quotes

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So we're led by denial like lambs to the slaughter
Serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water
And the old farm road's a four-lane that leads to the mall
And our dreams are all guillotines waiting to fall.

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Squint your eyes and look closer I'm not between you and your ambition I am a poster girl with no poster I am thirty-two flavors and then some And I'm beyond your peripheral vision So you might want to turn your head Cause someday you might find you're starving and eating all of the words you said.

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

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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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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.

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I am a work in progress Dressed in the fabric of a world unfolding Offering me intricate patterns of questions Rhythms that never come clean And strengths that you still haven't seen

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I always feel I have to take a stand,
And there's always someone on hand
To 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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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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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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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?

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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 call
When you're willing to fight
For what you think is real,
For what you think is right.

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The windows of my soul are made of one way glass
Don't bother looking into my eyes
If there's something you want to know - just ask.

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

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

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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.

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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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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

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

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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…

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

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They say that the truth will set you free
But then again, so will a lie...
It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land
Or if you're just trying to get by.

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I'm going to go ahead and go boldly
Cuz a little bird told me
That jumping is easy
That falling is fun
Right up 'til you hit the sidewalk
Shivering and stunned.

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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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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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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.

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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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