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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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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

Category:
Truth
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June Jordan
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Other Quotes from
Black History
category

You have seen how a man was made a slave; you shall see how a slave was made a man. – Frederick Douglass

Category:
Black History

I am working for the time when unqualified blacks, browns, and women join the unqualified men in running our government. – Cissy Farenthold

Category:
Black History

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

Category:
Black History

The African race is a rubber ball. The harder you dash it to the ground, the higher it will rise. – African Proverb

Category:
Black History

Random Quotes

See yourself always as cause, and perhaps a better world will be found among your effects. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Helping

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold. – Chinese Proverb

Category:
Time

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is lifes just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff. – Kevin Rudd

Category:
Anger

There is no blue without yellow and without orange. – Vincent Van Gogh

Category:
Color