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

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

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

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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...

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

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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...

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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 ...

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

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

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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems

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

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Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems

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June Jordan

Poet

Born: 1936-07-09

Died: 2002-06-14

June Millicent Jordan (9 July 1936 – 14 June 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, essayist, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants.More