Quote by June Jordan
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yoursel

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And thats political, in its most profound way. – 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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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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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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There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth. – Leo Tolstoy

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Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare. – Voltaire

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Some counterfeits reproduce so very well the truth that it would be a flaw of judgment not to be deceived by them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure. – Bodhidharma

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Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing. – Henry David Thoreau

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One does not jump, and spring, and shout hurrah! at hearing one has got a fortune, one begins to consider responsibilities, and to ponder business; on a base of steady satisfaction rise certain grave cares, and we contain ourselves, and brood over our bliss with a solemn brow. – Charlotte Bronte

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