"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley……" — June Jordan
"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 ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"
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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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As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change…
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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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Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally…
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No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our…
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes…
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
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As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we…
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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