"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.“

-June Jordan

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"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."

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"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."

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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."

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"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."

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"The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think."

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