Ani DiFranco citations

“Course numb is an old hat, old as my oldest memories.
See that one's my mother, and that one's my father, and that one in the hat, that's me.
It's a skill I'd hoped to abandon, when I got out on the open road,
But any more pent up emotion and I think I'm gonna explode.”

“Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.”

“I know there is strength in the differences between us,
And I know there is comfort where we overlap.”

“I don't need anyone to hold me, I can hold my own.”

“I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves.”

“I don't like my language watered down, I don't like my edges rounded off.”

“Don't treat me like I am something that happened to you.”

“You know
Taken out of context I must
Seem so strange.”

“When I look down, I miss all the good stuff
And when I look up, I just trip over things…”

“I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.”

“Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep--
But nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep.
Maybe you just had the worst day of your life;
Well, you know, there's no escape.
That's no excuse. Just suck up and be nice.”

“Because the world owes me nothing
And we owe each other the world.”

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

“If you don't ask the right question, every answer seems wrong”

“Love is a piano dropped from a four story window and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
-Two Little Girls (Little Plastic Castle)”

“I fight with love, and I laugh with rage.
You've gotta live light enough to see the humor,
And long enough to see some change.”

“When you sit right down in the middle of yourself you're gonna wanna have a comfortable chair.”

“Maybe you can keep me from never being happy, but you're not going to stop me from HAVING FUN!”

“Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.”

“We have to be able to criticize what we love,
Say what we have to say,
'Cause if you're not trying to make something better,
Then as far as I can tell, you are just in the way.”

“They can call me crazy if I fail
All the chance that I need
Is one in a million
And they can call me brilliant
If I succeed…”

“i do it for the joy it brings
because i'm a joyful girl
because the world owes me nothing
and we owe each other the world”

“My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.”

“If more people were screamin', I could relax.”

“Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.”

“I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof”

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

“It seems that different people have an idea of what I am, and what I should be. And then there's me.”

“For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl… anticipate.”