In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way. June Jordan deepfeelprocess Change image and share on social
We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived. June Jordan americadeprivederide Change image and share on social
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 extremelyimportantlanguage Change image and share on social
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 blackdependfact share on social
CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not. June Jordan commitcorenonviolence Change image and share on social
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. June Jordan fatherherointense Change image and share on social
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. June Jordan educateincessantlymean Change image and share on social
My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair. June Jordan basicbigfair share on social
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. June Jordan baseeviefreedom Change image and share on social
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic. June Jordan agoarabarabic share on social
