I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.
-June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (9 Jul 1936-2002)
I wanted to live my life so that people would know unmistakably that I am alive, so that when I finally die people will know the difference for sure between my living and my death.
-June Jordan, writer, teacher, and activist (9 Jul 1936-2002)
It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
-Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (b. 5 Jul 1958)
In order for me to write poetry that isn't political / I must listen to the birds / and in order to hear the birds / the warplanes must be silent.
-Marwan Makhoul, poet (b. 2 Jul 1979)