In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite… — 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
Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am? — June Jordan Copy Share Image
South Africa used to seem so far away. Then it came home to me. It began to signify the meaning of white hatred here.… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
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… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
