131 Quotes by June Jordan

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

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

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

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?

There 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.

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.

We 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.

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