Ani DiFranco Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 know there is strength in the differences between us,
And I know there is comfort where we overlap.

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't,
By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

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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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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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