13 June Jordan Quotes for You to Enjoy

June Jordan

American Writer

Born: Jul 9, 1936

Died: Jun 14, 2002

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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

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

Language 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. June Jordan

Me You Natural Writing Law Political Language Sister White Down Lying Our Brother Brother And Sister Unreal Lay Habits Self Weird Like Supposed Schools Holy Choke Why Speech

The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. June Jordan

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. June Jordan

Truth Political Telling Telling The Truth Poetry Involves Because Political Act Act

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

Me Fight Father Big Fighting Gave Tell Would Both He Fair Learn How Person Uneven Taught Reason Who Basics

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. June Jordan

Myself Me World About Around Educate Means Incessantly

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

Myself Me Travel People Country Soldier Way Those Arabic Arabs Would Poems Had Know Until Wrote Go Lebanon Years Years Ago Being Them Translated Many Here Two

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. June Jordan

People Mercy Important Other Most Exist Us Really Consequently

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. June Jordan

Friendship Freedom Young Mothers Going Rides Based Started

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