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There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. – June Jordan

Other quotes by June Jordan

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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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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June Jordan
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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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June Jordan
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Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

I feel fortunate that Im not a beauty. Im not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts. – Olivia Colman

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Beauty

A woman whose smile is open and whose expression is glad has a kind of beauty no matter what she wears. – Anne Roiphe

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Beauty

Its not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband. – Euripides

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Beauty

I have learned that acting is not about beauty. – Vincent Cassel

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Beauty

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Mom would kill me if I showed my navel. – Brandy Norwood

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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer. – Havelock Ellis

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Jews survived all the defeats, expulsions, persecutions and pogroms, the centuries in which they were regarded as a pariah people, even the Holocaust itself, because they never gave up the faith that one day they would be free to live as Jews without fear. – Jonathan Sacks

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Faith