“I am a woman searching for her savagery even if it’s doomed” — June Jordan Savagery Copy Share Image
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me — June Jordan Learning to love Copy Share Image
As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body… — June Jordan History Copy Share Image
Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak. — June Jordan Democracy Copy Share Image
If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. — June Jordan Father Copy Share Image
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. — June Jordan Friendship Copy Share Image
“the motivation behind every sentence is the wish to say something real to somebody real.” — June Jordan Motivation 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… — June Jordan Court Copy Share Image
Overall, white men run America. From nuclear armaments to the filth and jeopardy of New York City subways to the cruel mismanagement… — June Jordan America Copy Share Image
I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and… — June Jordan Analogies Copy Share Image
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in… — 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… — June Jordan Beautiful 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
As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not… — June Jordan Adults 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 Child 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… — June Jordan Bribe 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… — June Jordan America Copy Share Image
We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and… — June Jordan Care Copy Share Image
Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and… — June Jordan Astronomy Copy Share Image
“In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe… — June Jordan Children 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 Commitment Copy Share Image
What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest. — June Jordan Copy Share Image
“Something has to be done about the way in which this world is set up.” — June Jordan World Copy Share Image
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires. — June Jordan African american Copy Share Image
“I am a woman. And I am seeking an attitude. I am trying to find reasons for pride.” — June Jordan Pride Copy Share Image
“ I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name My name is my own my own my own and I can’t… — June Jordan Life Copy Share Image
Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness… — June Jordan Allies Copy Share Image
And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the… — June Jordan Business Copy Share Image
“the problem of gender identity is our evasion of the implications of power and our may-I-say-“feminine” inclinations to make nice. War is… — June Jordan Feminine Copy Share Image
I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon… — June Jordan Absolutes Copy Share Image
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems… — June Jordan Country Copy Share Image
Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I… — June Jordan Freedom Copy Share Image
