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I'm home in New Orleans!

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 53
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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Angela Maria DiFranco
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What I like about being independent [in the music industry] is that anybody who does play the album on the radio and anybody who does choose to write in the media does so because they want to, because they like it or because they find something interesting there, not because they have to.
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Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
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My distraction's my defense against this lack of inspiration Against this slow deflation Yeah the further the horizon The more it holds my gaze The foreground's out of focus but you know I kinda hope it's just a phase Just a phase.
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There's a paradox in every paradigm.
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When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong they taught me different was wrong.
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When I first started writing songs and being very explicit, it was hard, but one of the main things people respond to in my writing is that 'just say it' attitude of my songs. There really is nothing personal or private it's all universal, if you can just find the courage to be open about your life.
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I did not design this game I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples and I am not afraid of snakes.
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There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.
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When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.
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My mother was a feminist, and she gave me some tools of self-possession and self-empowerment, but now that I have lived here for forty-three years, it's, like, whoa, there is just so much more to do, other than become myself. I'm still talking about it. I still drop the P-word, patriarchy, on unsuspecting people in everyday conversations.
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Promiscuity does not scare me as long as she is savvy and self possessed when puberty comes to call. My aim is to simply raise my daughter to be secure in her self worth and capable of happiness all on her own.
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I never try to imagine the future. I kinda think it's a waste of time. I live in the now.
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When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.
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If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong -
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How come I can pick my ears, but not my nose? Who made up that rule anyway? How can you say that's the way it is, that's just the way it goes, why don't you decide fore yourself what you can do?
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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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Well, it's really gratifying to me to have a stage and some bright lights and a microphone. They're tools and opportunities, and to be able to just pull somebody up on stage with me and point at them is a great feeling.
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All of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.
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For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.
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