She was a soldier, a warrior in her way as much as I. This could have happened two hundred times these past twenty years. She knew it, and so did I. It was a good day to die.
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JUNE JORDAN A mother is a person who seeing there are only four pieces of pie for five people, promptly announce... TENNEVA JORDAN Success or failure depends more upon attitude than upon capacity successful men act as though they h... DUPREE JORDAN Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the u... JUNE JORDAN To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to tr... JUNE JORDAN My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes. MICHAEL JORDAN I never thought a role model should be negative. MICHAEL JORDAN I realize that I'm black, but I like to be viewed as a person, and this is everybody's wish. MICHAEL JORDAN The game is my life. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and pea... MICHAEL JORDAN Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're ... JUNE JORDAN