June Jordan Quotes

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.

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.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mot... -June Jordan

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

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?

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.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

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.

Poetry is a political act because it involves tell... -June Jordan

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

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This quote presents the idea that poetry possesses an inherent political dimension, asserting that through its ability to express truths, challenge norms, or give voice to marginalized perspectives, poetry becomes a form of activism or resistance to established power structures.

June Jordan Quotes

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