"If you are free, you are not predicatable……" — June Jordan
"If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable."
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61 Quotes by June Jordan
June Jordan has 61 quotes on this site.
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
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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,…
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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…
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and…
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have…
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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change…
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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…
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the…
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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…
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other.…
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More Controllable Quotes
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It is the desire for explanations that are at once systematic and controllable by factual evidence that generates science; and…
— Ernest Nagel
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We fear the past, present and future. We fear the unknown, we fear not having enough, losing what we have,…
— David Icke
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We want to believe that the world is understandable and controllable and unthreatening, that if we follow the rules, we'll…
— Gene Weingarten
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When seen up close, dangers are controllable: when you begin to climb the mountain of your dreams, pay attention to…
— Paulo Coelho
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Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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...one of the reasons I like classes and structured learning is that they encourage -and contribute to-the belief that life…
— James Roby
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Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems…
— Stuart Kauffman
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Our default faith mode is to trust, above all things, our own ability to create a safe, controllable, predictable world.
— Tullian Tchividjian
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Europe and the euro zone have no reason, rationally, to push Greece out of the euro. But this is a…
— Evangelos Venizelos
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It's no fun to have HIV even though it's viewed as a chronic, controllable disease. It means being wedded to…
— Philip E. Berger
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I'm not the kind of person who likes to shout out my personal issues from the rooftops, but with my…
— Catherine Zeta-Jones
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For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works?…
— George Orwell
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