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Quote by June Jordan
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. – June Jordan

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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. – June Jordan

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Poetry
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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. – June Jordan

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Black History
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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. – June Jordan

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Attitude
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Friendship
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares. – Henri Nouwen

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Friendship

When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that youre suddenly eager to know him or her even better. – Zhang Ziyi

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Friendship

Friendships the wine of life: but friendship new… is neither strong nor pure. – Edward Young

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Friendship

Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves. – Aristotle

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You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if youre famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you. – Usain Bolt

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Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them. – Jean Kerr

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