June Jordan Quotes

June Jordan — American Writer born on July 09, 1936, died on June 14, 2002

June Millicent Jordan was a Caribbean-American poet and activist... (wikipedia)

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, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

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, serious way.

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.

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 and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.

June Jordan Quotes

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