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I do believe that music has an intense power to connect us together, to inspire us to become ourselves.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
Composer
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Buffalo
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If you don't live what you sing about, your mirror is gonna fade.
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Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!
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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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And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong.
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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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Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!
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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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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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[The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same.
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What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
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I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.
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Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.
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In a man's world, I am a woman by birth and after 19 times around I have found - they will stop at nothing once they know what you are worth.
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Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.
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and god help you if you are an ugly girl course too pretty is also your doom cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room and god help you if you are a pheonix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying back
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The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.
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My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.
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