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

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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Truth
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We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about? – June Jordan

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Black History
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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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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you. – Adlai E. Stevenson

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Beauty

The beauty of jazz is that its malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities. – Pat Metheny

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Beauty

Beauty — in projection and perceiving — is 99.9% attitude. – Grey Livingston

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Beauty

Younger women have no problem in reconciling beauty with ambitions as a professional woman. – Camille Paglia

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Beauty

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Like everything metaphysical the harmony between thought and reality is to be found in the grammar of the language. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Grammar

I don’t believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at. – Maya Angelou

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Sisters

Intolerance is evidence of impotence. – Aleister Crowley

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Tolerance

I have never considered it my business to disabuse someone of a belief that makes life tolerable for them. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Belief