I'm sounding out the silence, avoiding all the words. Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before. Ani DiFranco something-special special may I fight with love and i laugh with rage....you gotta live light enough to see the humor, and long enough to see some change. Ani DiFranco fighting love life Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take. Ani DiFranco solace emptiness sadness While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized. Ani DiFranco change waiting sky I'm an all powerful amazon warrior, not just some sniveling girl. Ani DiFranco warrior girl powerful And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion. Ani DiFranco purpose expression life First decide what you got to do, then go out and do it. All we can do is to see each other through it. Ani DiFranco can-do life firsts Let's show them all how it's done, let's do it all imperfectly. Ani DiFranco done shows life Art is why I get up in the morning, but my definition ends there. Ani DiFranco definitions morning art It's not important to be defined, it's only important to use your time well. Ani DiFranco important use life They see me as a symbol, and not a human being. That way they can kill me, say it’s not murder it’s a metaphor. Ani DiFranco metaphor murder way I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence. Ani DiFranco consequence silence suffering TIME is not a thing that's ours to lose. Ani DiFranco loses It's great being your own boss, but then, you know, you make your own mistakes, you know, and you own them. You know, so it's empowering, and it's also humbling along the way. Ani DiFranco boss empowering mistake Before Katrina, you didn't see criticism of the Bush administration in the media. Here they are, stealing elections, enacting illegal wars, huge crimes against humanity and democracy, and you didn't even see criticism. It wasn't until Katrina that people started to come down on them. Ani DiFranco media war people Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. Ani DiFranco hero writing song Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing. Ani DiFranco parent self years I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess. Ani DiFranco teenage girl writing I've been collecting some more high-end guitars. I have an old Martin D28 from the '60s, a beautiful, classic Martin that I know I played on 'Mariachi.' Ani DiFranco classic guitar beautiful I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as opposed to men's work, which is generally tends to be seen as more universal - men's writing about their own experience tends to be put in a broader context. Ani DiFranco hate writing men
