June Jordan Quotes

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage ...

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you rea...

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's poli...

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what i...

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to lov...

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

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Bla...

A man is not a tree'...If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to ...

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Bla...

and if iif i ever let love gobecause the hatred and the whisperingsbecome a phantom dictate i o-bey ...

... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mo...