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All the wrong people have the power of suggestion and the freedom of the press is meaningless if nobody asks a question.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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We've got ego's like hairdos.
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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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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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I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
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Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.
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Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
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I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context.
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Strangers are exciting, their mystery never ends. But, there's nothing like looking at your own history in the faces of your friends.
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And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...
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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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Having more exposure is kind of a bittersweet thing for me, honestly, because it's nice to have a little more job security in life now.
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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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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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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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...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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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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Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
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I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.
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They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.
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If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.
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