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
Ani Difranco quotes about
two people mind
People talk about my image like I come in two dimensions, like lipstick is a sign of my declining mind, like what I happen to be wearing the day that someone takes my picture is my new statement for all womankind.
humility needs intense
So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.
time world this-world
We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.
loses
TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose.
pregnancy birth inspirational-pregnancy
Birth is the epicenter of women's power
atheist responsibility justice
I'm an atheist how unfortunate it is to assign responsibility to the higher up for justice amongst people,
integrity moving home
and half of learning to play is learning what not to play and she's learning the spaces she leaves have their own things to say and she's trying to sing just enough so that the air around her moves and make music like mercy that gives what it is and has nothing to prove she crawls out on a limb and begins to build her home and it's enough just to look around and to know that she's not alone up 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
treats happened
Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.
paradox paradigm
There's a paradox in every paradigm.
army mediocrity hours
I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army, But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.
two splits radical
To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do
stills
I still define myself by the places that I've been.
mistake generations radio
And I was shocked to see the mistakes of each generation will just fade like a radio station, if we drive out of range.
feminism folks folk-music
I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..