Ani Difranco
Ani Difranco
Ani DiFrancois an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter and businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered a feminist icon. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1970
CityBuffalo, NY
army-and-navy rehearsing
We're all rehearsing for the presidency. I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman-army.
alone barely blame learn react time women
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse, and I don't think that I'm better than you but I don't think that I'm worse. Women learn to be women, and men learn to be men, and I don't blame it all on you, but I don't want to be you
left mine possession truth yours
we thought we left possession behindbut truth is i was yours and you were mine
positivity trying just-do-it
One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.
strength individual-differences diversity
I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.
relationship love-you too-much
Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you.
independent writing media
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.
looks sound wonder
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...
teacher pain hands
We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom.
beauty moving causes
I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.
eye glasses soul
The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask
way causes groove
I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove.
mom baby creative
As any mom knows, having a baby is an extremely creative act and to love and create a baby, it's on par with any other creative act that we could come up with.
heartless chalk hard
Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger, and never to their own fear.