Quote by June Jordan
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

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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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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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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Beauty
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Beauty?… To me it is a word without sense because I do not know where its meaning comes from nor where it leads to. – Pablo Picasso

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Beauty

When I look at the majority of my own songs they really came from my own sense of personal confusion or need to express some pain or beauty – they were coming from a universal and personal place. – Annie Lennox

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Beauty

Beauty is truth, truth beauty, – that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. – John Keats

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Beauty

I didnt have any confidence in my beauty when I was young. I felt like a character actress, and I still do. – Meryl Streep

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Beauty

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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. – Oscar Wilde

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God will forgive me. Its his job. – Heinrich Heine

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It is only when men begin to worship that they begin to grow. – Calvin Coolidge

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Men

Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that were marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldnt have to drive to the computer center. We didnt have $1,000 computers. – Sam Wyly

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