"Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ..."

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Source : June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.137, Basic Books

June Jordan

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“A little style is a good thing, but you canâ€™t trust a person who wonâ€™t be ugly in front of you.”

Source : Victor LaValle (2011). “Big Machine”, p.220, Oldcastle Books
“Dignity is as essential to human life as water, food, and oxygen.”
“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.”
“I find it weird that people who claim to speak for the prisoners basically want to keep them in cages all the time - and then they'll fight for better prison libraries or whatever. It's like they're missing the big picture. If I were in prison, of course I would prefer to be outside doing physical labour. It's not physical labour but prison life that kills a person. It's so bad inside that the outside jobs are often sought after. So, yeah, call them work crews and let them do it. At the same time the retributive side can feel the cons are being punished.”
“My first civil disobedience arrest for social justice was in 1986 for protesting the SDI.”
“Sometimes it feels like you're losing, but even when you're losing, you're getting something.”
“The Bible has a human history as well as a divine inspiration. It is a history full of interest, and it is one which all those who value their Bible should know, at least in outline, if only that they may be able to meet the criticisms of sceptics and the ignorant.”

Source : "The Story Of The Bible" by Frederic G. Kenyon. Ch. I, The Bible And Recent Discoveries, p. 2, 1949.
“People often say, "Riots aren't revolutions." That's true. The vast majority of riots never become revolutionary. On the other hand, show me the revolution that started without a riot.”

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