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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

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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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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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. – June Jordan

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Black History
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Beauty
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A representative is free delivery shes a personal beauty consultant. Some people want that high touch. – Andrea Jung

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Beauty

Where is there beauty when you see deprivation and starvation? – Rosalind Russell

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Beauty

Being nerdy just means being passionate about something, including everyone – the coolest people on Earth are passionate and therefore nerdy about something whatever it is, whether its sports, or gaming, or technology, or fashion, or beauty, or food, or whatever. – Zachary Levi

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Beauty

I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after. – Wallace Stevens

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Beauty

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It is jazz music that called me to be a musician and I have always sang the songs that moved me the most. – Harry Connick, Jr.

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Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society. – Marian Wright Edelman

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Society

At its core, 90 percent of my job is still sitting down in a room full of people, and breaking stories… and that requires virtually no technology. – Steven Levitan

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For anyone who lives in the oak-and-maple area of New England there is a perennial temptation to plunge into a purple sea of adjectives about October. – Hal Borland, c.1961

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October