"If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable."

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Source : "Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union".

June Jordan

“I freeze and burn, love is bitter and sweet, my sighs are tempests and my tears are floods, I am in ecstasy and agony, I am possessed by memories of her and I am in exile from myself.”
“Two things I take very seriously in life. My golf game and my relationship with God. Neither one is simple”
“Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self.”
“I don't need to be a radical to think that who a dragon is counts more than birth or wealth," Selendra said, with what dignity she could."Why, that's the very definition of a radical," he retorted.”
“Warhol is the pre-Helnwein.”
“When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?”
“People can tell you what to do, but ultimately, we're all going to die, so how do you want to live?”
“I try to be self-disciplined with my thoughts. It's our thoughts that matter most, and all the rest falls into line behind that: if I remember who I really am and why I'm on the earth, then I more naturally want to treat my body like a temple and so forth.”

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