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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here i

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didnt know the poems would travel. I didnt go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. – June Jordan

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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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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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Im living my dream right now. I get to make music, perform and travel. – Ville Valo

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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel. – Ted Nugent

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Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive. – Stephen Fry

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I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun. – Guy Laliberte

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Without consciousness and intelligence, the universe would lack meaning. – Clifford D. Simak

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Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. – Zora Neale Hurston

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