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"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
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"When you take action-think.When you fail-think.When you are in doubt-think.When you have lost your way-think.You are nothing but your thoughts."
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"Wherever your thoughts and beliefs can take you, you can go there."
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Personal Development
"Give thy thoughts no tongue."
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Personal Development
"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."
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Personal Development
"How can the thoughts be stopped? Tell the thoughts, 'You take care of your own issues; I am not on your side.' That way you will sit on God's side."
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"Of course, in our train of thought, we would all like to think we're on the right track, or at least the same railroad company as the right track."
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"The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him."
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Personal Development
"A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations."
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"Doubt isn't original."
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"Thought is the parent of the deed."
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Explore more quotes by June Jordan
"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 freedom implies?"
Love
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
People
"The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet."
Music
"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."
Injustice
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
Violence
"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."
Life
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
Friendship
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
Family
"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."
Family
"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
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