Quotes by : June Jordan

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you really....

... mommahelp meturn the face of historyto your face.- Getting Down To Get Over - Dedicated To My Mother....

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black:....

and if iif i ever let love gobecause the hatred and the whisperingsbecome a phantom dictate i o-bey in....

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the....

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each....

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

And I got to thinking about the moral meaning of memory, per se. And what it means to forget, what it....

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political,....

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