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
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
gonna learned life maybe teach train
Maybe I'll live my whole life just getting by. Maybe I'll be discovered; maybe I'll be colonized. You could try to train me like a pet, you could try to teach me to behave, I'll tell you that I haven't learned it yet, I ain't gonna sit, I ain't gonna
doubt fit happened
you can doubt anythingif you think about it long enoughcuz what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that
cuz doubt fit happened
you can doubt anything if you think about it long enough cuz what happened always adjusts to fit what happened after that
beyond eat eyes flavors girl gonna might peripheral poster turn words
Squint your eyes and look closer. I'm not between you and your ambitions. I am a poster girl with no poster. I am thirty-two flavors and then some. And I'm beyond your peripheral vision, so you might want to turn your head. 'Cuz some day you are gonna get hungry, and eat all of the words you just said.
compares equation gravity ground joy possibly quantify scale speed weight
What kind of scale compares the weight of two beauties, the gravity of duties, or the ground speed of joy? Tell me, what kind of gage can quantify elation? What kind of equation could I possibly employ?
american-musician criticise far trying
We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not trying to make something better, than as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.
education ignorance envy
I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.
sex lying bed
Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.
social-taboos noses ears
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?
thinking social-taboos people
I use my dress to wipe up my drink, I care less and less what people think.
bored feelings unanswered-questions
What makes you so lavish that you can afford to spend every sober moment feeling angry and bored?
insanity break
What doesn't bend, breaks.
self occupation self-preservation
Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.