511 Quotes by Ani DiFranco

Imagine you’re a girl, just trying to finally come clean, knowing full well they’d prefer you were dirty and smiling.

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

You have to be able to access the profoundly spiritual understanding that people’s actions, even their very identity, are not the whole truth of who they are.

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do.

What bugs me is that you believe what you’re saying. What bothers me is that you don’t know how you feel. What scares me is that while you’re telling me stories, you actually believe that they are real.

Fear is inky. Fear stains the white sheet of consciousness that one comes swaddled in and no amount of earthly scrubbing can make it completely clean again.

If I’m gonna go down I’m gonna do it with style. You won’t hear me surrender, you won’t hear me confess cause you’ve left me with nothing but I have worked with less.

As I lay there in my bed, with only the armor of my eyelids shut tight, I learned to completely leave my body. I learned to develop my escape fantasies into plans.

I’d rather suffer the consequences of truth than of silence.