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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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My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before.
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When I was like sixteen, I was a total chick I had big hair. I was seen as this attractive girl, and I would get all this attention. And then I just cut off my hair, and I quit playing that game.
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I can't wait to get back to New York City where at least when I walk down the streat, no one ever hesitates to tell me exactly what they think of me.
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I've never had a very closely connected family. My parents split up when I was young and I was living with my mom for a little while, then I was kind of just on my own really young. It wasn't some kind of global tragedy, it was just never really a very close-knit family. So there was support in the sense that they didn't stand in my way.
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I see a lot of connections between folk and punk music just because they're both subcorporate music - I mean, traditionally.
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I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.
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You rhapsodize about beauty, and my eyes glaze. Everything that I love is ugly. I mean really, you would be amazed. Just do me a favor, it's the least that you can do, just don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.
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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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Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.
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At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.
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We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
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What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is identified not by what they supposedly are but rather by what they are into. Which brings us to the terms hemosexual, shemosexual, and mosexual.
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Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.
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Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.
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There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.
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The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society. It's raw. It's scary. But it gives us a place to work with.
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I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change.
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I am 32 flavors and then some.
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Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.
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I was attracted to a lot of different art forms - dancing, painting. But there's something about music that people hold so close. It's such a powerful art form, and that's why I live for it.
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