"When we heard about the hippies, the barely……" — June Jordan
"When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives"
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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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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
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There is nothing funny about Halloween. This sarcastic festival reflects, rather, an infernal demand for revenge by children on the…
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What is an adult? A child blown up by age.
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The average adult laughs 15 times a day; the average child, more than 400 times.
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Children who assume adult responsibilities feel old when they're young.
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Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise…
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An Adult faith does not follow the waves of fashion and the latest novelties.
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