Best June Jordan Quotes
- To tell the truth is to become beautiful. Beautiful
- To believe is to become what you believe. Believe
- In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt),… America
- I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment. Any
- It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. Educate
- I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you… Absolute
- I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it,… Analogies
- I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name Funny
- We survive our love because we go on loving. Go
- That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty. Beauty
- But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. Based
- My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. Father
- Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute… Absolute
- 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… Anger
- Reproductive choice is not some trendy item to toss or keep around the house. If you cannot get an education or a job, if you… Body
- ... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in… Attempts
- 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… Bind
- As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. Deeply
- To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. Beautiful
- I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it… Black
- In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself… Deep
- There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the… Beauty
- That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far… Activism
- Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. Act
- I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest. Able