Ani Difranco
Ani Difranco
Ani DiFrancois an American singer, multi-instrumentalist, poet, songwriter and businesswoman. She has released more than 20 albums and is widely considered a feminist icon. DiFranco has received positive feedback from critics for much of her career...
ProfessionFolk Singer
Date of Birth23 September 1970
CityBuffalo, NY
fun fall animal
A little bird told me that jumping is easy and the falling is fun, right up until you hit sidewalk shivering and stunned.
regret sadness shadow
It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.
thinking swings years
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.
believe opportunity men
All the decent people, male and female, are feminists. The only people who are not feminists are those who believe that women are inherently inferior or undeserving of the respect and opportunity afforded men. Either you are a feminist or you are a misogynist. There is no box marked "other."
sadness emptiness solace
Emptiness has its solace in that there's nothing left to take.
memories animal castles
Goldfish have no memory, I guess their lives are much like mine. And the little plastic castle is a surprise everytime.
silence suffering consequence
I'd rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.
stills
I still define myself by the places that I've been.
two splits radical
To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do
change sky waiting
While out in TV Nation, under darkening skies, the resistance is just waiting to be organized.
jobs creativity exercise
I love to exercise my creativity in many ways but as each year of specialization goes by I feel further and further from my other creative selves. I used to be able to see myself doing many things and sometimes I still long for a job that involves less pressure and grappling with people but, as you say, I am one of the lucky ones so I try to just focus on feeling lucky and carry on!
heart my-heart brutal
There's this brutal imperial power, that my passport says I represent. But it will never represent where my heart lives, only vaguely where it went.
humility needs intense
So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.
fall beer two
Subtract out the impact and the fall is all you get. So here's two beers to remember why and three more to forget.