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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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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. – June Jordan

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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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I have been enlightened. I have fallen into poetry and it has swallowed me up. – Keith Haring

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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence. – Laura Marling

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Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. – Carl Sandburg

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When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans. – Mario Batali

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