June Jordan Quotes

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.

June Jordan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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My dad made a huge impact on me in terms of right and wrong.

Jim Pattison

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It would feel like a smack in the face to sign with any label outside of Dre's. He took a risk on me, and that means everything.

Anderson Paak

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I think that the proposed constitution is one of the European legal documents with the strongest social dimension I have seen since I began following European issues.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

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I'm little, but I love big things.

Lorrie Fair

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Jesus discouraged the accumulation of wealth, worried about its effects on those who had it, and took special pleasure in helping the poor, dedicating his efforts to them. He must have shaken his head at the large gaps between rich and poor throughout ancient Palestine in the first century.

Jay Parini

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All too often, lotteries only add to the problem of the financially disadvantaged by taking money from them and giving nothing of value in return.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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The City of London is always going to be there and will continue to be important.

Jose Angel Gurria

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In the 1960s, my father chose to introduce Italian-style clothing into a world that was filled with boxy Brooks Brothers suits. So if you were dressing in his clothes in New York or California, you were breaking a rule. And my mother, Risha, who is still living, has always been an activist. I don't think my mom has met a cause she doesn't like.

Chris Meledandri

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Raise your ambition beyond where you're capable of now. There's nothing about my hometown that said I'd be working with Fortune 50 CEO's, Olympians, at the highest level.

Brendon Burchard

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The reason CAFTA should be enacted is not economic benefits: it is national security.

William M. Daley

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If I don't measure up as an American writer, at least leave me to my delusion.

Philip Roth

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I've played farce on the stage, but I have never played any sort of comedy on the screen.

Peter O'Toole

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