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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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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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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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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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Well you know, I have the utmost respect for people like Angelina Jolie and Zoe Saldana in Colombiana. – Gina Carano

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I have enormous respect for Steve Johnson, and as Ive told him, Feed was one of the inspirations for Salon. They were up there before we were. And also for Joey and the Suck people. – David Talbot

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Respect for right conduct is felt by every body. – Jane Austen

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The only ground on which a neutral State can claim respect at the hands of belligerents is, that, so far as she is concerned, their rights are protected. – Gerrit Smith

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There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. – Oscar Wilde

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Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine. – Rita Dove

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Worry bankrupts the spirit. – Terri Guillemets

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