
-winning singer, guitarist
, poet
, and songwriter
. She has released more than 20 albums, and is widely considered a feminist icon.
DiFranco was born in Buffalo, New York
, to Elizabeth and Dante DiFranco, who had met while attending MIT
. She started playing Beatles
covers at local bars and busking
with her guitar teacher, Michael Meldrum, at the age of nine.
In 1989, DiFranco started her own record company, Righteous Records
.
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.
I don't always feel lucky, but I'm smart enough to try.
Every tool is a weapon - if you hold it right.
They're gonna be mad at us.They're gonna be mad at me and you.They're gonna be mad at us and all the things we wanna do.
I used to be a superhero.No one could touch me, not even myself.You are like a phone booth that I somehow stumbled into,And now look at me, I am just like everybody else.
I am still praying for revolution.
Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
Because the world owes me nothingAnd we owe each other the world.