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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what yo

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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The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. – June Jordan

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car
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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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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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Other Quotes from
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And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. – Friedrich Nietzsche

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To me a real patriot is like a real friend. Whos your real friend? Its the person who tells you the truth. Thats who my real friends are. So, you know, I think as far as our country goes, we need more people who will do that. – Bill Maher

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Truth

People often ask, why arent you reading about what it is youre working on right now? And the truth is, you only get three pages a night before your eyelids close. – David Petraeus

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Truth

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. – Aristotle

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Im a romantic, and I like guys to bring flowers and buy some gifts – not expensive things, just romantic things. – Bai Ling

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The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies. – Terry Waite

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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out. – Theodore Bikel

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Channels are blocked in the mind, from the day. Lie down in blackness of night, forgotten remnants rush to the mind, or creeping slowly appear in the dreams. – Terri Guillemets

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