Ani DiFranco Quotes

One of my rules is: Never TRY to do anything. Just do it.

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

I know there is strength in the differences between us. I know there is comfort where we overlap.

Those who call the shots are never in the line of fire.

Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.

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.

But in the garden of simple, where all of us are nameless, you were never anything but beautiful to me.

I will not be afraid to let my talent shine.

What doesn't bend, breaks.

The world owes us nothing; we owe each other the world.

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

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.

I envy your ignorance, I hear that it's bliss.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

The windows of my soul are made of one-way glass, don't bother looking into my eyes if there's something you want to know, just ask

When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong; they taught me different was wrong.

If you want to challenge the system, don't go to bed with it.

We barely have time to react in this world, let alone rehearse.

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 are just flying past

I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.

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

Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.

Just let me go, we have to be able to criticize what we love, to 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.

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

There's a crowd of people harbored in each person There are so many roles that we play.