"As a poet and writer, I deeply love……" — June Jordan
"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; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America."
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61 Quotes by June Jordan
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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I…
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without…
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Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power,…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and…
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have…
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural…
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the…
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I am the history of the rejection of who I am
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Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of…
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other.…
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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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