and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or… — 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
Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable. — 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
That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love… — 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
