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We are wise women, we are giggling girls. We both carry a smile to show when we're pleased, we both carry a switchblade in our sleeves.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Street Artist
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Buffalo
New York
Angela Maria DiFranco
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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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I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.
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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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Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other'.
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I know my mind is made of matter but I need to know exactly what is the matter at it's core? Because my heart is just a muscle and simply put, it's sore.
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I turned my pain into art and my hard work into a career. Helping myself has helped others. helping others has helped me.
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Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.
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My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.
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Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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They say that the truth will set you free But then again, so will a lie... It depends if you're trying to get to the promised land Or if you're just trying to get by.
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You got to look outside- your eyes- you got to think outside- your brain- you got to walk outside- your life- to where the neighborhoods change.
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Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly.
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I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.
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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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I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried.
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People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose.
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But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.
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