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

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Friendship
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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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Poetry is a mixture of common sense, which not all have, with an uncommon sense, which very few have. – John Masefield

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Poetry

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. – Antonin Artaud

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Poetry

I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinsons poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. – Gordon Getty

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Poetry

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be. – Mark Strand

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Poetry

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Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. – Anton Chekhov

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Our best thoughts come from others. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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My other car is a Zamboni. – Hockey Saying

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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. – Barbara Ehrenreich

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