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There is no alternative. A Democrat is a Republican is a big businessman, and we're all consumers instead of citizens. It just manifests in the culture, in the music, in the art. I feel a little panicky about it.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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I just see a lot of people who are really terrified of the f-word. A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists.
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The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask
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I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination.
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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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When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things.
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I am a thinned-skinned type. I am very sensitive, very emotional. Vulnerability is kind of always a part of my day.
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My main tactic is to focus on the people I respect. The people I think are great people. Do I have their respect? Do I have their support? If the answer is yes, then I'm doing ok.
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My songs are just little letters to me.
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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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One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
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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've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.
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I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands.
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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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I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.
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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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I'm home in New Orleans!
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I've been a long time coming, and I'll be a long time gone. You've got your whole life to do something, and that's not very long.
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You've decided to love me for eternity, I'm still deciding who I want to be today.
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