June Jordan Quotes

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 9, 1936 - June 14, 2002

Topics

LifeLoveRespectMyselfI AmMe

Sometimes you have to take a thing when it comes and be glad. I first began to feel this way in '57, when I started to get myself together musically, although at the time I was working academically and technically.

John Coltrane

TimeMyselfTogetherFeelYouWay

When we play live, it's always been a do or die effort. And everything we've ever done has always had that approach.

Angus Young

LiveEffortDiePlayDoneAlways

I travel all over the country making speeches for people I believe in.

Ann Richards

TravelPeopleBelieveCountryOver

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Stephen King

HeartPeopleSmallThinkPersonBoy

I've seen neighborhoods that I would have never driven though because I'm riding my bike, because I'm looking for side roads, looking for maybe more hills or less hills depending if I'm exercising or not. You see a lot more, and you get the flow of a city a lot more.

Stone Gossard

RoadsBikeCityLookingYouFlow

Skaters, I think they tend to be outsiders who seek a sense of belonging, but belonging on their own terms, and real respect is given by how much we take what other guys do, these basic tricks, 360 flips, we take that, we make it our own, and then we contribute back to the community the inner way that edifies the community itself.

Rodney Mullen

CommunityRespectThinkBelonging

I really don't know what happened in reference to 'The Butler.' Mr. Daniels and I had a conversation. I had the script, the email that goes along with it in reference to the character, read the script, loved it. Then I never heard from Mr. Daniels again, and the next I saw was that Oprah Winfrey is now playing the part.

Mo'Nique

CharacterLovedConversationKnow

I believe marriages should be legally defined as between one man and one woman.

Lisa Murkowski

WomanManBelieveI BelieveBetween

I'm sure there are many women in this world who would hate me because all I watch is sports. But I found the one girl who loves watching with me.

Josh Segarra

WomenGirlSportsHateMeWorld

A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.

Joseph Conrad

CommunicationTimeSpaceFlyingGo

I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two.

Dennis Lehane

FunnyHappyShortDarkKindNever

I used to feel that everything I know I learned through my lifelong struggle with stuttering; I now feel this way about my damn back.

David Shields

StruggleFeelBackKnowDamnWay

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