Quote by June Jordan
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who

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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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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respect
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We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about? – June Jordan

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Black History
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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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Truth
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You know, bad poetry I wrote in high school can still be found on the Internet, and, you know, theres a Web log of our college newspaper. You know, theres so many different stages of my creative development are sort of on-record if somebody were to choose to look for them. – Lena Dunham

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Poetry

The nerds are my favourite sort of boys – any guy with a passion – whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think its super sweet and its very attractive for a female. – Teresa Palmer

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Poetry

Poetry says the things that I cant say. I read a lot, but I never write it. – Trevor McDonald

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The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads to madness. – Christopher Morley, Inward Ho!

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Poetry

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We owe at least this much to future generations, from whom we have borrowed a fragile planet called Earth. – Maurice Strong

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Mind is a broken mirror. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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