As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.” — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
