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Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
Composer
Guitarist
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Record Producer
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
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Buffalo
New York
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i found religion in the greeting card aisle now i know hallmark was right
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You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.
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I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.
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One thing I do find in the lost generation or something is a kind of abhorrence of history, you know, like it's boring, dumb, or just not interesting. I think it's terribly interesting if you can get your head around how it relates to where you're standing right here and now.
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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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Change the narrative, change the laws.
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I mean, playing music at home and writing and hanging out with my guitar is kind of medicinal for me, but when I bring the songs to people on stage, it's very joyous.
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and I try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time.
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For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.
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We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.
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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 are just flying past
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A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
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What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.
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We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.
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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 mean, I think it's hard enough to find somebody you can stand for more than ten minutes, so, like, you shouldn't narrow your options.
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Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.
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I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
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Playing show after show is like my bread and butter.
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