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My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way.
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Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.
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These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.
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We've got ego's like hairdos.
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All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a misogynist. There is no box marked other.
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Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.
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