Nwafor Ani Quotes

That's why we are always stressed, because we are always looking at something in the distance. If you are always looking at the top of the mountain you are climbing, you cannot be aware of the grass and flowers growing at your feet.... If we lose this moment because we are thinking about something else, we've lost it forever. ~ Ani Tenzin Palmo

I know men are delicate origami creatures who need women to unfold them, hold them when they cry. But I am tired of being your savior and I am tired of telling you why. ~ Ani DiFranco

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 ~ Ani DiFranco

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

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet. ~ Ani DiFranco

And if there's anything I do it's change and grow. I'm just a living being. Every year of my life I seem to learn that everything I know is wrong. ~ Ani DiFranco

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. ~ Ani DiFranco

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

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

I had a little bit of resistance to the idea of taking energy away from my work, and the baby comes along and, lo and behold, that's exactly what happens. ~ Ani DiFranco

I'm the color me happy girl, Miss live and let live. And when they're out for blood, I always give. ~ Ani DiFranco

And she tried the high heels but she couldn't bring herself to prance. ~ Ani DiFranco

Words are some of the most powerful and important things I know ... Language is the tool of love and the weapon of hatred. It's the bright red warning flag of danger
and the stone foundation of diplomacy and peace. ~ Ani DiFranco

At one time, we all were Gods. ~ Bjorn Street

My life may not be something special But it's never been lived before. ~ Ani DiFranco

When all you can think of is your own personal problems, you have nothing to give to your society. If you're trying to figure out where your next meal is coming from, you can't go march on Washington. ~ Ani DiFranco

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. ~ Ani DiFranco

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. ~ Ani DiFranco

Smile pretty, and watch your back ~ Ani DiFranco

People used to make records, as in the record of an event, the event of people playing music in a room, and now everything's cross-marketing, its about sunglasses and shoes, or guns and drugs that you choose. ~ Ani DiFranco

I'm pretty much a workaholic, but when you're doing what you love it's hard to think of a reason to stop. ~ Ani DiFranco

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

Birth is the epicenter of women's power ~ Ani DiFranco

I always feel I have to take a stand,
And there's always someone on hand
To hate me for standing there.
I always feel I have to open my mouth,
And every time I do, I offend someone, somewhere. ~ Ani DiFranco

I've been waiting for sleep to offer up the day with both hands. ~ Ani DiFranco

Up up up up up up
points the spire of the steeple
but god's work isn't done by god
it's done by people
~ Ani DiFranco

Spring is super in the supermarkets
and the strawberries prance and glow
never mind that they're all kinda tart and tasteless
as strawberries go
meanwhile wild things are not for sale
anymore than they are for show
so i'll be outside, in love with the kind of beauty
it takes more than eyes to know ~ Ani DiFranco

What doesn't bend, breaks. ~ Ani DiFranco

I was supposed to be cool about this, yeah, I remember - cool was the plan. Tried to keep it all under wraps, but the wraps kept going slack. I keep turning round, I keep coming back. ~ Ani DiFranco

Forgive your own parents for their mistakes. Forgive them for not being able to be the parents you needed. Forgive them for being unconscious, and free your soul from pain. You aren't your past. You aren't your childhood. Your childhood is gone, but you have today. ~ Ani Kapanadze

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

I like to be an inspiration and an example of the idea that you can be independent, and it's no problem, and you can pay your rent, and it's empowering, and it's great. And that's true, but it also takes a really long time, and you have to have a lot of patience and a lot of conviction in why you want to remain independent. ~ Ani DiFranco

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero. ~ Ani DiFranco

Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare. ~ Shannon Hale

Art is the reason I get up in the morning, but the definition ends there. It doesn't seem fair that I'm living for something I can't even define. ~ Ani DiFranco