Ani DiFranco Quotes

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.

I am normal. In fact, I think I might be more normal than anyone else.

No one knows me with dark hair.

Nobody beats Superman. Everybody else needs a costume - Superman needs a costume to be normal.

How many people came and stayed a certain time, Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you Like light behind windblown fog and sand Filtered and influenced by it, until no part Remains that is surely you.

I would just turn into a giant pair of lips. "Oh God! There he is! It's Lip-Man!"

You're not the ugly one. Levi Grinned. You're just the Clark Kent... ... Will you warn me when you take off your glasses?

Time is the enemy of identity

For most people, I'm just Alice. But I don't mind. Now, if I were Alice the ax murderer, then I'd hate it.

It's very hard to grow, because it's difficult to let go of the models of ourselves in which we've invested so heavily.

We all have a wrong idea of ourselves. I am always changing, and I will continue to change. So, I never try to describe, define or judge myself.

I don't know if you know who you are, until you lose who you are.

It's so horrible to realize you're just the same as everyone else, isn't it?

I used to be someone.

I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.

I wouldn't say I'm normal. But I'm relatively stable. When I think of normal, I think of mediocrity, and mediocrity scares the f--- out of me.

I show up knowing exactly who I was and never leave as myself.

All my friends are super normal.

I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.

The Good Lord Bird don't run in a flock. He Flies alone. You know why? He's searching. Looking for the right tree. And when he sees that tree, that dead tree that's taking all the nutrition and good things from the forest floor. He goes out and he gnaws at it, and he gnaws at it till the thing gets tired and it falls down. And the dirt from it raises other trees. It gives them good things to eat. It makes 'em strong. Gives 'em life. And the circle goes 'round.

Last but not least, she put on a pair of black-framed reading glasses she’d found on Mr. Mercer’s bedside table. If it worked for Clark Kent, it’d work for her.

In short, whoever you may be, To this conclusion you'll agree, When every one is somebodee, Then no one's anybody!

When people say you're going to be so different at 22 or 23, when you're 16, you're like, I'm so not! And then you change drastically.

Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.

I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me.