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We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent a

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

Other quotes by June Jordan

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. – June Jordan

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respect
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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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June Jordan
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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

The African-American experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry. – Bill Frist

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Black History

Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril. – William Lloyd Garrison

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Black History

American means white, and Africanist people struggle to make the term applicable to themselves with ethnicity and hyphen after hyphen after hyphen. – Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination, 1992

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Black History

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. – Oprah Winfrey

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Black History

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Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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strength

I never had a man come to me for advice yet, but what I soon discovered that he thought more of his own opinion than he did of mine. – Josh Billings

Category:
Advice

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use. – Emily Post

Category:
good

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Unity