Quote by June Jordan
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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Beauty
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didnt know the poems would travel. I didnt go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. – June Jordan

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Travel
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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. – June Jordan

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I have a new found respect for women who have been through breast cancer and this surgery. – Giuliana Rancic

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Success turns a lot of people off. I have a pretty solid sense of joy and respect that irritates people, and can irritate me, too. – Dave Matthews

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Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals arent aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are. – David Attenborough

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So its kind of nervous to be in this situation, but at the same time you look at all those actors and the work that theyve done, Ive been in bigger films than all of them and still kept my integrity and still kept my respect. – Shia LaBeouf

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The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson

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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence. – Democritus

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I live by Go big or go home. Thats with everything. Its like either commit and go for it or dont do it at all. I apply that to everything. I apply that to relationships, I apply that to like sports, I apply that to everything. Thats what I live by. Thats how I like it. – Paul Walker

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Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared — this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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