131 Quotes by June Jordan

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language.

Sometimes we become so sophisticated we have to read the New York Times in order to figure out whether it’s a hot or a rainy day.

We must make language accountable to the truths of our experience.

The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what’s given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.

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.