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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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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And thats political, in its most profound way. – June Jordan

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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. – June Jordan

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Poetry
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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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To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. – Voltaire

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There is so much work to be done to treat gays and lesbians and gay and lesbian couples with the respect that theyre entitled to. They deserve, in my judgment, partnership benefits. They deserve to be treated fairly when it comes to adoption and immigration. – John Edwards

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If guys dont respect themselves, they dont respect other people. Thats times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it dont take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd. – Richard Petty

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A child is owed the greatest respect if you have ever have something disgraceful in mind, dont ignore your sons tender years. – Juvenal

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