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June Jordan Quotes
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isnt that what freedom implies? - June Jordan Quotes
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. - June Jordan Quotes
CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not. - June Jordan Quotes
Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other peoples formulations of whats important. - June Jordan Quotes
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. - June Jordan Quotes
I think I have come to a place where Im able to feel more comfortable about being honest. - June Jordan Quotes
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didnt know the poems would travel. I didnt go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. - June Jordan Quotes
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 Quotes
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. - June Jordan Quotes
Language is political. Thats why you and me, my Brother and Sister, thats why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. - June Jordan Quotes
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 wouldnt be fair. - June Jordan Quotes
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. - June Jordan Quotes
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here! - June Jordan Quotes
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. - June Jordan Quotes
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. - June Jordan Quotes
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. - June Jordan Quotes
That, of course, was the hook that I seized in order to try and memorize this stuff so I could avoid getting beaten in the morning. - June Jordan Quotes
The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. - June Jordan Quotes
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. - June Jordan Quotes
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. - June Jordan Quotes
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 Quotes
This literature was completely incomprehensible to me, but I became immersed in the sounds of the language of these great writers. - June Jordan Quotes
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And thats political, in its most profound way. - June Jordan Quotes
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. - June Jordan Quotes
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