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

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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I think the gay community should get smart and drop the word marriage. Do you really need to change every right-wing Christian to make sure you get your equal rights? Eyes on the prize, we should be sticking to getting equal rights.
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...words are some of the most powerful and important things I know....Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger--and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace.
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Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them.
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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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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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And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
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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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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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In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.
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To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do
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Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot.
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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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Imagine you're a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they'd prefer you were dirty and smiling.
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When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.
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I'm aware enough, I guess, of American labor history.
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I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.
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Science chases money, and money chases its tail, and the best minds of my generation cannot make bail.
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Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people
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First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it.
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Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.
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