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I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. – June Jordan

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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. – June Jordan

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The courts cannot garnish a fathers 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. – June Jordan

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car
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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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Show respect to all people, but grovel to none. – Tecumseh

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But really, we also need to learn how to love one another as women. How to appreciate and respect each other. – Chaka Khan

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I have great respect and understanding for military commitment due to my own familys involvement with the armed forces. – Carolyn Murphy

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As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: This is me playing this character. And arent I fantastic! I dont feel that so much now. – Kristin Scott Thomas

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