That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, ... -June Jordan

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.

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June Jordan Quotes to Explore

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until t...
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....
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth....
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what free...
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way....
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 ...
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966....
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as fa...

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The attitude in Baltimore in 1999 was almost one of resignation, that our problems were bigger than our capacity to handle them....
There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women....
I think the world is ambivalent about feminism. So I can't blame college students. I think they're reflecting the greater culture's attitude toward fe...
Maybe the Burberry woman is undefinable! I think it's less about what she looks like and more about an attitude....
There are many movies which come with an attitude of black and white. I am good and you are bad. And there are many movies that are also trying to see...
I have always had a mystical attitude toward inspiration. That's my nature....
I believe e-courses will eventually change people's attitude toward learning. Education will play an increasingly dominant role in people's lives. For...
In essence, the Thai people are not materialistic at all. They're not in the least driven by the kind of ambition that drives us. The more I got to kn...
Extra dimensional theories are sometimes considered science fiction with equations. I think that's a wrong attitude. I think extra dimensions are with...
I think that major championships are as much about attitude as they are anything else....