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The way I play guitar is very, very hard and I bloody myself incredibly without the tape. And the nails are my picks.

Ani DiFranco

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Ani DiFranco
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 23
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And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.
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My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?
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What we all have to admit to is that one man cannot save us. Unless we start energizing ourselves, all standing behind him with all of the force of our collective power then we can't expect mountains to be moved. And that is not exactly happening, we are a very comfortable population.
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And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.
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The world owes us nothing we owe each other the world.
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I want somebody who sees the pointlessness and still keeps their purpose in mind I want somebody who has a tortured soul ...some of the time
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My writing just kind of exists out there in the air-it's all sort of intended as spoken, or sung, word. So, to commit them to the page...that way was kind of intimidating to me, yet intriguing, to try to reflect the rhythms and connotations and emotions that you can deliver, speaking-wise, on a page.
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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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If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?
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I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending.
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We negotiate with chaos for some sense of satisfaction.
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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'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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Privilege is a headache, that you don't know that you don't have.
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