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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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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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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. – Philip Levine

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In my late teenage years, I developed a real passion for it, and wrote a lot of poetry. – Danielle Steel

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Poetry is also the physical self of the poet, and it is impossible to separate the poet from his poetry. – Salvatore Quasimodo

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I want people to bow as they see me and say he is gifted with poetry, he has seen the presence of the creator. – Allen Ginsberg

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