June Jordan - Truth Quotes

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

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As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

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