"Poetry is a political act because it involves……" — June Jordan

"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."

— June Jordan

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61 Quotes by June Jordan

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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power,…
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and…
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have…
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change…
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural…
If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the…
I am the history of the rejection of who I am
Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of…
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other.…

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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