We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread… — June Jordan America Copy Share Image
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces… — June Jordan Communication Copy Share Image
Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey… — June Jordan Blossoming Copy Share Image
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Lately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate… — June Jordan Absolutes Copy Share Image
“They blew up your homes and demolished the grocery / stores and blocked the Red Cross and took away doctors / to… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of… — June Jordan Choices Copy Share Image
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly… — June Jordan Activism Copy Share Image
If we lived in a democratic state our language would have to hurtle, fly, curse, and sing, in all the common American… — 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… — June Jordan Absolutes Copy Share Image
Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the… — June Jordan African american Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan America Copy Share Image
There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is… — June Jordan Beauty 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… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
The courts cannot garnish a fathers salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our… — 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… — June Jordan America 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… — June Jordan Bisexuality Copy Share Image
“This is the meaning of poverty: when you have nothing better to do than to hate somebody who, just exactly like yourself,… — June Jordan Hate 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 Bribe Copy Share Image
