Quote by June Jordan
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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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didnt know the poems would travel. I didnt go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. – June Jordan

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Travel
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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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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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All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified. – Thomas Huxley

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Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. – Stephen King

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It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth. – Peter Abelard

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Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. – Miguel de Cervantes

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