Quotes by June Jordan about Truth

3 quotes by June Jordan about truth

June Jordan American writer, poet and teacher

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the...

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

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to...

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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The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to...

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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