June Jordan's Profile
Brief about June Jordan: By info that we know June Jordan was born at 1936-07-09. And also June Jordan is American Writer.
Some June Jordan's quotes. Goto "June Jordan's quotation" section for more.To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
Tags: Beautiful, Love, TruthI 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.
Tags: Life, Love, RespectIn 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.
Tags: Deep, Serious, TruthThat 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.
Tags: Attitude, Enemy, YourselfI think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
Tags: Able, Honest, PlaceWe 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.
Tags: America, Reason, ViolenceThere 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.
Tags: Beauty, Greatest, TruthBisexuality 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?
Tags: Freedom, Love, WomanI 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.
Tags: Country, Soldier, TravelLanguage is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
Tags: Political, Self, WritingBut, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
Tags: Freedom, Friendship, YoungConsequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
Tags: Exist, MercyMy father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
Tags: Father, Hero, PassionateThe 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.
Tags: Learn, Poetry, TruthThe 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.
Tags: Music, Time, WritingRelated topics
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