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June Jordan has 65 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness…
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems…
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response.…
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust…
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements…
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into…
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of…
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I am the history of the rejection of who I am
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Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and…
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces…
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"If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying."
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Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are…
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Well, I think the main message is there is more to your story. There is more than what happens between the crib…
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this,…
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How to succeed in business without really trying (title of book)
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I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going…
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready…
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