"If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic."

-- June Jordan

#Women Quotes #Political Quotes #Majority Quotes

“Unless we remember we cannot understand.”

Source : E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.133, RosettaBooks
“Under the heavens and under the sea there's a friend I don't know, who holds the right key.”
“The celebrity mill is so active these days that actors can make careers out of being themselves, and I don't know that I want to. I think I'm just figuring out how to make a career out of not being myself. It's hard.”
“Well, you know, I mean, I first did my live shows in the late 70's and in those days I had a boatload of equipment that always seemed to be going wrong.”
“Beware of anyone who says they know. Trust me, they don't, or they wouldn't have to say they did.”
“The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.”
“I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.”
“Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.”

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