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Quotes by June Jordan
- That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.
- The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
- The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
- There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
- To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
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