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Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to 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.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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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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I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the f-word. A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.
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I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.
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My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
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They taught me different was wrong.
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I'm home in New Orleans!
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There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.
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There are so many things that we have to be very concerned about. But I always come back to feminism.
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I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
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Women who don't control their own reproductive rights are not free.
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I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
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fate is not just whose cooking smells good, but which way the wind blows
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I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.
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People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.
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I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.
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I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.
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