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June Jordan quotes: I am a woman. And I am seeking an attitude. I am trying to find reasons for pride. I am a woman. And I am seeking an attitude. I am trying to find reasons for pride.
June Jordan quotes: If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable. If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.
June Jordan quotes: I am the history of the rejection of who I am I am the history of the rejection of who I am
June Jordan quotes: If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable. If you are free, you are not predicatable and you are not controllable.
June Jordan quotes: To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way. To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June Jordan quotes: But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
June Jordan quotes: CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not. CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.
June Jordan quotes: We survive our love because we go on loving. We survive our love because we go on loving.
June Jordan quotes: I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name
June Jordan quotes: Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day. Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it's a hot or a rainy day.
June Jordan quotes: It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
June Jordan quotes: 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 not nice. 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 not nice.
June Jordan quotes: The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet. The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
June Jordan quotes: There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth. There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
June Jordan quotes: I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest. I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
June Jordan quotes: Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few. Freedom is indivisible or it is nothing at all besides sloganeering and temporary, short-sighted, and short-lived advancement for a few.
June Jordan quotes: The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think. The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really feel and what you really think.
June Jordan quotes: I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me
June Jordan quotes: Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine. Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.
June Jordan quotes: I am a woman searching for her savagery even if it's doomed I am a woman searching for her savagery
even if it's doomed
June Jordan quotes: What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
June Jordan quotes: My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
June Jordan quotes: Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations. Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.
June Jordan quotes: My heart is not peripheral to me. My heart is not peripheral to me.
June Jordan quotes: Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
June Jordan quotes: A man is not a tree' ... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish. A man is not a tree' ... If we remain where we start from we will neither grow nor flourish.
June Jordan quotes: Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
June Jordan quotes: I am the history of battery assault and limitless armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul I am the history of battery assault and limitless
armies against whatever I want to do with my mind and my body and my soul
June Jordan quotes: To believe is to become what you believe. To believe is to become what you believe.
June Jordan quotes: I am working never to be late again. I am working never to be late again.
June Jordan quotes: To begin is no more agony than opening your hand. To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
June Jordan quotes: This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist. This is the difficult miracle of Black poetry in America: that we persist, published or not, and loved or unloved: we persist.
June Jordan quotes: Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying. Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.
June Jordan quotes: As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry.
June Jordan quotes: Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am? Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
June Jordan quotes: Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples. Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.
June Jordan quotes: Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ... Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires ...
June Jordan quotes: I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment. I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.
June Jordan quotes: A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak. A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.

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