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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. -

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. – 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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June Jordan
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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. – June Jordan

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Black History
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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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June Jordan
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Ive been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out. – Ed Westwick

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Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it. – Russell Baker

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Poetry

Poets are candid. They tell us not under an abstract, but an individual form, in which reality breathes, what humanity thinks in the most secret recesses of its mind. – Alexandre Vinet (1797–1847)

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Poetry

Poetry is the language we speak in the most terrifying or ecstatic passages of our lives. But the very word poetry scares people. They think of their grade school teachers reciting Hiawatha and they groan. – Erica Jong

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Poetry

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