Jess

“Those who sit furthest from the center of power, see it the clearest.”
― Ani DiFranco, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

“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.”
― Ani DiFranco, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir

“In these crises, there breaks out an epidemic that, in all earlier epochs, would have seemed an absurdity — the epidemic of over-production. Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation, had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed. And why? Because there is too much civilization, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce”
― Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto

“poetry is a way of seeing and that a poet is not so much a person skilled with words as a person who recognizes the poetry that exists all the time all around us.”
― Ani DiFranco, No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir