June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet and activist. Read full biography of June Jordan →
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... →
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.
One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously... →
CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.
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... →
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.
The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently... →
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a Caribbean-American poet and activist.