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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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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice.
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In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.
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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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My songs are just little letters to me.
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Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.
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I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent.
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I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.
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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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You're trying to fight gravity on a planet that insists that love is like falling, and falling is like this.
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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 am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.
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Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.
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But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem
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I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
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What bugs me is that you believe what you're saying. What bothers me is that you don't know how you feel. What scares me is that while you're telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.
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My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.
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