"Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine."

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Source : June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

June Jordan

#Freedom Quotes #Self Quotes #Sake Quotes

“But, actually, it is only Americans who say that our freedoms and prosperity are the reason foreigners hate us. If you ask the foreigners, they make it clear that it's America's bullying foreign policy they detest.”
“This is a racist country.”
“Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.”

Source : Jeff Lindsay (2010). “Dexter Is Delicious: Dexter Morgan (5)”, p.170, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard
“At the Third Wave Foundation, we were asking questions like, "How can we get more voters registered who support our issues?" or "How do we want to give away of money so that it has the greatest impact?" But, the poems were involved in questions of feeling whole, negotiating sexual trauma, and speaking to what has been lost forever. I've always been a person who feels most energized when I am both creating art and working toward social change, but I often have difficulty talking about the two in the same breath.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The work of the painter, the poet or the musician, like the myths and symbols of the savage, ought to be seen by us, if not as a superior form of knowledge, at least as the most fundamental and the only one really common to us all; scientific thought is merely the sharp point more penetrating because it has been whetted on the stone of fact, but at the cost of some loss of substance and its effectiveness is to be explained by its power to pierce sufficiently deeply for the main body of the tool to follow the head.”
“You get a lot of narrative energy from people who make really big mistakes, who act against their best interests, who do things that turn out to have serious consequences. It's very hard make a story out of people doing the right thing over and over again.”
“Crippled but free, I was blind all the time I was learning to see.”

Source : "Song: "Help on the Way"". 1975.
“Youâ€™re not supposed to animate drawings. Youâ€™re supposed to animate feelings.”

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