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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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"I've always thought of myself as a reporter."

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"Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory."

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"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."

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"To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost."

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"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."

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"I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in."

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"I took thought, and invented what I conceived to be the appropriate title of 'agnostic'."

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"He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow."

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"A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything."

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"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."

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"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."
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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"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."
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"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
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"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?"
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"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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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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"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."
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"My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair."
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"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
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