"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966." ― June Jordan Topic(s): Friendship More From June Jordan "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." "I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn’t know the poems would travel. I didn’t go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic." "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." More In Friendship "Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down."― Malcolm De Chazal "The only way to have a friend is to be one."― Ralph Waldo Emerson "Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other."― Honore de Balzac