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June Jordan

"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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"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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"We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them."

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Amber Hurdle

"The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought, That's what I want to do."

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Amber Hurdle

"We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves."

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Amber Hurdle

"Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame."

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Amber Hurdle

"One thought fills immensity."

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Amber Hurdle

"Thought is the mental imagery of what you want to do, have or achieve."

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Amber Hurdle

"All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows."

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"We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them."

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Amber Hurdle

"Ten years ago, in 94, we thought maybe nobody would ever care about Styx again."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some children act as if they thought their parents had nothing to do, but to see them established in the world and then quit it."

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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

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June Jordan
"There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth."

Beauty

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June Jordan
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."

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June Jordan
"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 two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."

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June Jordan
"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."

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June Jordan
"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

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June Jordan
"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."

Being

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June Jordan
"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."

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June Jordan
"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."

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June Jordan
"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."

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