511 Quotes by Ani DiFranco

Somedays the line I walk turns out to be straight - Other days the line tends to deviate.

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

In any marginalized community, whether people identify themselves or not affects us all.

I think the music industry, for instance, is such a huge, multibazillion-dollar industry and it's become very, very savvy. There's a very short grace period in which actual human rebellion or resistance can thrive before it's co-opted by these huge companies. And all of youth culture is packaged and sold back to us at this furious rate these days. I think it's part and parcel to this corporate encroachment on our lives in general.

I think it is very useful to know ourselves, but when we start naming and labeling, that is dangerous, that gets problematic. It negates that things are always changing. Besides, it's hard to pin a label onto something that's always moving.

I love all those great 'f' words - feminism, folk music..

Either you are a feminist or you are a sexist/misogynist. There is no box marked 'other.'

What I like way better than LGBT in terms of labeling sexuality actually is a scheme that comes to me from my friend Animal Prufrock wherein one is identified not by what they supposedly "are" but rather by what they are into. Which brings us to the terms hemosexual, shemosexual, and mosexual.

I am still praying for revolution.