Racism Quotes by June Jordan

9 Racism quotes by June Jordan

June Jordan’s nine brief reflections on racism blend poetic intensity with clear critique. Though the set is modest, each line resonates, providing a potent, quick‑read window into her voice.

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Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement…

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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who…

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In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,…

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We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that…

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In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent…

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There is a man who exists as one of the most popular objects of leadership, legislation, and quasi-literature in the history of…

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Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they…

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Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate…

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When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor,…

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

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I am working never to be late again.

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To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

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In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime,…

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We survive our love because we go on loving.

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Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute…

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The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous…

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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per…

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“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.”

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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 love…

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“...love without being destroyed...”

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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?

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South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here.…

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The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or…

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