"Virtue that wavers is not virtue."

-- John Milton

“One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.”
“My mom worked as a housekeeper, and I saw her relationship with her employers - how on the one hand she spent more time with these women than with a lot of her friends, and how in certain ways they were friends. But then they weren't.”
“don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another”
“Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.”

Source : June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon
“My fame will outshine that of Victor Hugo or Napoleon”

Source : Raymond Roussel, John Ashbery (1991). “Selections from Certain of His Books”, Consortium Book Sales & Dist
“Schools in which students and teachers relate as partners-where Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication is part of every interaction are communities of learning, rather than top-down, impersonal factories. Young people begin to see school as a safe and exciting place of exploration where they can share feelings and ideas, and where each child is recognized, valued and nurtured.”
“The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.”
“Welcome to Atlanta Jack and hammers and vogues Back to the mackin' and jackin' the clothes Adolescents packin the fo'”

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