"To begin is no more agony than opening…" — June Jordan

"To begin is no more agony than opening your hand."

— June Jordan

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61 Quotes by June Jordan

June Jordan has 61 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father… — Ezra Taft Benson
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. — Maya Angelou
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. — Hannah More
Can Jesus Christ see the agony of His soul in us? He can't unless we are so closely identified with… — Oswald Chambers
Since I only got one life to ive, God forgive me for my sins, let me make it and i'll… — Tupac Shakur
You learn more from ten days of agony than from ten years of content. — Sally Jessy Raphael
All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich.… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have… — Albert Camus
There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of… — Aldous Huxley
The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other… — Aberjhani
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need… — Sydney J. Harris
Controlled hysteria is what's required. To exist constantly in a state of controlled hysteria. It's agony. But everyone has agony.… — Arthur Miller

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