"If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American names, all the undeniable and representative and participating voices of everybody here."

-- June Jordan

#Names Quotes #Voice Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.”
“I don't benefit by minimizing his accomplishments Andre Ward.”
“Iâ€™m frequently asked why I donâ€™t write my memoirs. I think I have.”
“Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.”
“The real safeguard of democracy is education.”
“It was really hard to do that at first. You have been holding onto this thing - even though you know what someone has done before and you have faith in what they can achieve - it's just a matter of whether that's gonna be right for you. At first you do need to be quite protective; to make sure it's going down the right track, so I was pretty nervous to begin with.”
“I give people Ayn Rand with trappings,”
“To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the mind descending and arising in the body.”

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