#tell

My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair. ↗

— June Jordan

#big #both #fair #father #fight

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

— June Jordan

#become #begin #love #love yourself #most

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

— June Jordan

#because #involves #poetry #political #political act

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. ↗

— June Jordan

#deep #each #feel #get #herself

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

#created #greatest #hoping #other #possible

Well, I suppose I'm interested in ways of storytelling and in stories that are about storytelling. ↗

— Neil Jordan

#i #interested #stories #storytelling #suppose

Knowledge is love and light and vision. ↗

— Helen Keller

#knowledge #light #love #vision

We rely on our purveyors to tell us what's available and what's good. ↗

— Thomas Keller

#good #our #purveyors #rely #tell

I was always telling everybody that I could be funny. ↗

— Sally Kellerman

#could #everybody #funny #i #telling

I love Charlie, Billy Burke's character. Writing for him is so spectacular, he's so funny and wry and every scene he's in he just takes. There's a scene in 'Eclipse' where Bella tells him she's a virgin, and it's the funniest, most awkward scene I've ever seen on film. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#billy #character #charlie #eclipse #ever