When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless. Ani DiFranco More Quotes by Ani DiFranco More Quotes From Ani DiFranco One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it. Ani DiFranco positivitychangemotivational I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap. Ani DiFranco individual-differencesdiversitystrength We are wise, wise women. We are giggling girls. Ani DiFranco wise-womengirlwise The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world. Ani DiFranco world We are taught to view pain as an enemy, not a teacher. But pain is the right hand of growth and transformation. Pain is in the history of all human wisdom. Ani DiFranco painviewsteacher I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove. Ani DiFranco missionscausesway I wonder what you look like under your t-shirt. I wonder what you sound like when you're not wearing words. I wonder what we have when we're not pretending. Ani DiFranco soundwonderlooks I don't take good pictures 'cause I have the kind of beauty that moves. Ani DiFranco causesbeautymoving Freedom and democracy, That's the word from Washington every day. Put America to sleep with warm milk and clichés, And people are expendable along the way. Ani DiFranco sleepamericapeople Maybe you don't like your job, maybe you didn't get enough sleep, well nobody likes their job, nobody got enough sleep. Maybe you just had the worst day of your life, but you know, there's no escape, there's no excuse, so just suck up and be nice. Ani DiFranco nicesleepjobs If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it. Ani DiFranco guitarbedchallenges My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV. Ani DiFranco swingspoliticscountry I hope progressive ways of thinking will permeate the "mainstream" more and more in the coming years. Goddess knows we have endured a very long spell (thirty plus years) of regressive thinking and hyper conservativism dominating our culture and national discourse. It necessitates risk taking and rule breaking by people in all walks of life to swing that pendulum back though. Ani DiFranco swingsyearsthinking I sincerely believe patriarchy to be at the root of all of our social diseases and feminism, it's antidote, to be a prerequisite to peace on earth. feminism provides an alternative way of thinking and structuring things that focuses on and prioritizes relationships and de-emphasizes hierarchy, separation and domination. Ani DiFranco rootsbelievethinking [The 'corporate takeover of people's lives'] also accounts for a lot of homogenization of culture. There are fast food restaurants everywhere. Every place tastes the same. Ani DiFranco tasteculturepeople Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.' Ani DiFranco rocksfansstars 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. Ani DiFranco succeedcrazyneeds When I look down, I miss all the good stuff And when I look up, I just trip over things. Ani DiFranco missingstufflooks Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV. Ani DiFranco inspirelifeart Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ani DiFranco pianomusiclove
