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Ani DiFranco is an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter, feminist icon and businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career.

Although DiFranco's music has been classified as folk rock and alternative rock she has added punk, funk, hip hop and jazz influences. DiFranco created her own record label, Righteous Babe, giving her significant creative freedom.

DiFranco supports many social and political movements by performing benefit concerts, appearing on benefit albums and speaking at rallies. Through the Righteous Babe Foundation DiFranco has backed grassroots cultural and political organizations supporting causes including abortion rights and gay visibility. She counts American folk singer and songwriter Pete Seeger among her mentors.

✵ 23. September 1970
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Ani DiFranco Quotes

“Girl, next time he wants to know
What your problem is
Next time he wants to know
Where the anger comes from
Just tell him this time the problem's his
Tell him the anger just comes
It just comes.”

Ani DiFranco

Hide and Seek
Song lyrics

“If you're not angry, you're just stupid, or you don't care.”

Ani DiFranco

Out of Range
Song lyrics

“My country tis of thee,
To take swings at each other on talk-show TV.”

Ani DiFranco

Tis of Thee
Song lyrics

“They put you in your place, and they tell you to behave
But no one can be free until we're all on even grade.”

Ani DiFranco

The Story
Song lyrics

“I believe in that step of not just making revolutionary music but making it in a way that challenges the system, Especially in this day and age when the tools for producing and distributing are more and more accessible to the average Joe and Josephine. The possibility of emancipation and control and independence is so much greater now.”

Ani DiFranco

Rolling Stone interview http://www.columbia.edu/~marg/ani/articles/rolling_stone.html (1995)

“When we patch things up,
They say a job well done.
But when we ask the question why
Where did the rips come from?,
They say we are subversive,
And extreme, of course.
We are just trying to track a problem to its source.”

Ani DiFranco

Looking for the Holes
Song lyrics

“I’m going to go ahead and go boldly
Cuz a little bird told me
That jumping is easy
That falling is fun
Right up ‘til you hit the sidewalk
Shivering and stunned.”

Ani DiFranco

Swan Dive
Song lyrics

“I always wanted to be commander-in-chief of my one-woman army,
But I can envision the mediocrity of my finest hour.”

Ani DiFranco

Not So Soft
Song lyrics

“Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight -
Other days the line tends to deviate.”

Ani DiFranco

In or Out
Song lyrics

“I think I'm done gunnin to get closer.
To some imagined bliss.
I gotta knuckle down.
And just be ok with this.”

Ani DiFranco

"Knuckle Down"
Song lyrics

“Sometimes the beauty is easy.
Sometimes you don't have to try at all.
Sometimes you can hear the wind blow in a handshake.
Sometimes there's poetry written right on the bathroom wall.”

Ani DiFranco

Good, Bad, Ugly
Song lyrics

“I still define myself by the places that I've been.”

Ani DiFranco

North Main Street
Song lyrics

“So I walk like I'm on a mission cuz that's the way I groove.
I got more and more to do, I got less and less to prove.
It took me too long to realize that I don't take good pictures
Cuz I have the kind of beauty that moves.”

Ani DiFranco

Evolve
Song lyrics

“Love sets fire to your schedule,
And then calls an end to time.”

Ani DiFranco

Star Matter
Song lyrics

“In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.”

Ani DiFranco

Regarding her bisexuality, 1994 interview http://www.glbtq.com/arts/difranco_a.htm

“And 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're just flying past.”

Ani DiFranco

32 Flavors
Song lyrics

“I used to be a superhero.
No one could touch me, not even myself.
You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into,
And now look at me, I am just like everybody else.”

Ani DiFranco

Superhero
Song lyrics

“Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't,
By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.”

Ani DiFranco

Evolve
Song lyrics

“I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.”

Ani DiFranco

Grand Canyon
Song lyrics

“So my heart finally broke. It was so long bent.
And it broke in three places when it finally went.
It wanted only to say what it meant.
So it suffered every punishment.”

Ani DiFranco

You Each Time
Song lyrics