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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

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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Truth
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June Jordan
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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. – June Jordan

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Poetry
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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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Other Quotes from
Beauty
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Ive always thought of beauty therapy, alternative treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels – for essentially self-deceiving people who feel a bit hollow and have to pay to be touched. – Julie Burchill

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Beauty

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the worlds beauty, is everything! – H. P. Lovecraft

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Beauty

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving ones self. – Priscilla Presley

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Beauty

Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. – Marcus V. Pollio

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Beauty

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