June Jordan Quotes

Fighting's not me - it's just something that I do.

If we must fight, then by God we will fight. And I hope they [the Croats and Bosnians] will not be so crazy as to fight against us. Because if we don’t know how to work well or to do business, at least we know how to fight well.

Yoiu have to fight in order to live in peace.

Politics for me started in violence.

I'm not a good talker, I'm a good fighter.

I grew up in an environment where being polite was taken as a weakness. So I just fought everybody.

I don't come and fight for fun. I don't do that. I don't like to hurt people for fun.

Fighting is what I do.

Guys get hurt in fights. It doesn't mean you stop a fight every time somebody gets hurt.

Most of my good friends have fights with me. Those guys know that I was in martial arts for 12 years fighting on the circuit.

I've been in many street fights. I fought street fights for my friends to protect them.

Fighting causes you to face life head on, because you could end up seriously getting hurt, and you could hurt somebody else. It causes both people to face the reality that we are fragile beings, but it doesn't mean we can't enjoy ourselves in the process and punch each other in the face and have a good time.

I never picked fights. I'm never going to start to pick fights. If they ask me to fight someone, I'll say yes.

Don’t ever fight with Lisbeth Salander. Her attitude towards the rest of the world is that if someone threatens her with a gun, she’ll get a bigger gun.

You didn't have to take a punch for me, you know,' he said. 'I'm a lover, not a fighter.' 'You're a freak is what you are,' I said.

There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

I had it then. Soda fought for fun, Steve for hatred, Darry for pride, and Two-Bit for conformity. Why do I fight? I thought, and couldn't think of any real good reason. There isn't any real good reason for fighting except self-defense.

I'm not starting any fights. I might finish one though.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

I don't fight people for fun.

I've never been in a street fight.

If someone hits me I consider it a challenge.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

People try to challenge me in bars every now and then. As long as they're not physical I just walk away, but if they get physical then I just end up in a fight.

I think, unfortunately, we live in a world where people attack other people and I think a legitimate rationale for war is the saving of human life, the saving of lives of people who cannot defend themselves.