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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 opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
— Milton Berle
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I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.
— Charlotte Bronte
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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
— Pearl S. Buck
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Deep down, the Iraqi people want the United States out. And their self-determination should be respected.
— Peter Camejo
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This is for all of you out there tonight, reaching for a dream - don't ever give up! Never ever listen to…
— Mariah Carey
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People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
— Andrew Carnegie
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is…
— Carlos Castaneda
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The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.
— Coco Chanel
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I don't know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.
— Ralph Abernathy
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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…
— June Jordan
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Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if…
— John F. Kennedy
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What makes a good follower? The single most important characteristic may well be a willingness to tell the truth. In a world…
— Warren G. Bennis
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