Ani DiFranco Quotes

They taught me different was wrong.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

I am still praying for revolution.

I am getting nowhere with you and I can't let you go and I cant get through.

Actually I don't know if honesty is a strength or some kind of weakness.

The bathroom mirror has not budged, the woman who lives there can tell the truth from the stuff they say and looks me in the eye- says do you prefer the easy way? No? Well ok then, dont cry.

People need something or someone to fasten themselves to in order to reassure themselves that they are real.

We have to really be intentional right now about holding the media accountable, and taking back the discourse and terms of discussion. It's been hijacked.

There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.

The stronger I am in my personal life, the more energy I have to look outward, to address my society.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music.

And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...

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.

Up up up up up up points the spire of the steeple but god's work isn't done by god it's done by people

I'm recording our history now on the bedroom wall, and when we leave the landlord will come and paint over it all.

I don't care if they eat me alive, I've got better things to do then survive.

Mostly, I stay out of social media conversations. But sometimes, they hunt me down and shoot at me anyway!

If a politician is running in your local community who's pro-choice, who's feminist in their thinking, get behind them. Send them some money! If you have no money but have time, lick stamps!

Taking me seriously is a big mistake. I certainly wouldn't.

God help you if you are a phoenix and you dare to rise up from the ash a thousand eyes will smolder with jealousy while you are just flying past

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

There's a paradox in every paradigm.

I just don't know any other word than "feminist" that describes a person who believes women are people.

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

Love isn't over when the sheets are stained.

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

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give.

When I need to wipe my face, I use the back of my hand, And I like to take up space just because I can, And I use my dress to wipe up my drink. I care less and less what people think.

And thoughts of no other man but you could possibly get through the picket lines to enter into my mind.

I sing sometimes for the war that I fight, 'Cause every tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

But as bad as I am, I'm proud of the fact that I'm worse than I seem

I can jump ship and swim-- that the ocean will hold me, that there's got to be more than this boat I'm in.

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.

You've got your whole life to do something, And that's not very long. So why don't you give me a call When you're willing to fight For what you think is real, For what you think is right.

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.

Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar.

Someday you're going to get hungry and eat most of the words you just said.

My songs are just little letters to me.

I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.

There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

I always feel I have to take a stand, And there's always someone on hand To hate me for standing there. I always feel I have to open my mouth, And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere.

Patriarchy is a fundamental imbalance underlying society And it's one we rarely address because it's so universal. But as I get older, I see that peace is a product of balance.

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.

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.

Take away our play stations and we are a third world nation.

When everything else seems unclear, at least I'll know I do it for the joy it brings.

I make such a good statistic, somebody should study me now; somebody's gotta be interested in how I feel, just cause I'm here, and I'm real.

I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people.