June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet and activist. Read full biography of June Jordan →
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 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... →
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
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... →
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as... →
I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep... →
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... →
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... →
Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
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.
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
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... →
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet and activist.