"And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for."

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Source : June Jordan (1998). “Affirmative Acts: Political Essays”, Anchor

June Jordan

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“I believe that we are given strength and help from a power much larger than ourselves. I believe if I humble myself that this power will come through me, and help me create work that is bigger than I would have ever been able to have done alone.”
“Everybody thinks they have the answer to how to be a good parent. Here's mine: Everybody's gonna make mistakes.”

Source : "BigDaddy's Rules: Raising Daughters is Tougher Than I Look". Book by Steve Schirripa, www.today.com. May 7, 2013.
“I only get ill when I give up drugs”
“People are getting tired of being constantly on edge. Maybe that means they do let down their guard or that they're complacent. What does it take to shake that? A 5% correction? A 10% one? Those kinds of declines are unfortunately something you put up with.”

Source : Source: uk.businessinsider.com
“In a photograph, if I am able to evoke not alone a feeling of the reality of the surface physical world but also a feeling of the reality of existence that lies mysteriously and invisibly beneath its surface, I feel I have succeeded. At their best, photographs as symbols not only serve to help illuminate some of the darkness of the unknown, they also serve to lessen the fears that too often accompany the journeys from the known to the unknown.”
“There is a very big difference between American and British travel journalism, and that's this whole business of the assisted or freebie trip. In Britain we are unashamed about any travel company paying for you to go and then writing about it. That's the only way we can do it. But I have tried the same in the States, and I can't write for any sizeable American newspaper because they tell you to do it on this basis.”
“Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.”
“Whatever you give out in life is what you receive back in life. Give positivity, you receive back positivity; give negativity, you receive back negativity.”

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