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When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.
Ani DiFranco
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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.
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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 would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.
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