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 1 Share Now -
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. - June Jordan 2 Share Now -
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. - June Jordan 3 Share Now -
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 4 Share Now -
Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies? - June Jordan 6 Share Now -
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. - June Jordan 7 Share Now -
So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders. - June Jordan 8 Share Now -
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. - June Jordan 9 Share Now -
