June Jordan Quotes

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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?
• Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack…
• Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known…
• I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I…
• If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive…
• To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference…
• As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of…
• Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying,…
• If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then…
• I am the history of the rejection of who I am
• Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right.…
• So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among…
• Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
• Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a…
• As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
• The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this…
• As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of…
• The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was…
• The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what…
• One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and…

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