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June Jordan Quotes

I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name Picture Quote #1

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives Picture Quote #1

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand Picture Quote #1

What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart? Picture Quote #1

Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations Picture Quote #1

I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience Picture Quote #1

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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 Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant Picture Quote #1

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 presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here! Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal Picture Quote #1

All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake Picture Quote #1

We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future Picture Quote #1

I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well Picture Quote #1

Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life Picture Quote #1

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth Picture Quote #1

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Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good Picture Quote #1

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words Picture Quote #1

We survive our love because we go on loving Picture Quote #1

To believe is to become what you believe Picture Quote #1

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment Picture Quote #1

To tell the truth is to become beautiful Picture Quote #1

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We are the ones we’ve been waiting for Picture Quote #1

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me Picture Quote #1

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way Picture Quote #1

It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

My heart is not peripheral to me Picture Quote #1

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I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name (June Jordan Quotes) When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different ... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives (June Jordan Quotes) To begin is no more agony than opening your hand (June Jordan Quotes) What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart? (June Jordan Quotes) Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations (June Jordan Quotes) I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience (June Jordan Quotes) 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 Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic (June Jordan Quotes) 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 (June Jordan Quotes) My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant (June Jordan Quotes) 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 presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here! (June Jordan Quotes) 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 (June Jordan Quotes) 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 (June Jordan Quotes) In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal (June Jordan Quotes) All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it’s your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake (June Jordan Quotes) We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the complete, constantly unfolding, complicated heritage that is our black experience. We should absolutely resist the superstar, one at a time mentality that threatens the varied and resilient, flexible wealth of our Black future (June Jordan Quotes) I do believe that the analogy for bisexuality is a multicultural, multi-ethnic, multiracial world view. Bisexuality follows from such a perspective and leads to it, as well (June Jordan Quotes) Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life (June Jordan Quotes) Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth (June Jordan Quotes) Let me just say, at once: I am not now nor have I ever been a white man. And, leaving aside the joys of unearned privilege, this leaves me feeling pretty good ... (June Jordan Quotes) As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words (June Jordan Quotes) We survive our love because we go on loving (June Jordan Quotes) To believe is to become what you believe (June Jordan Quotes) I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment (June Jordan Quotes) To tell the truth is to become beautiful (June Jordan Quotes) We are the ones we’ve been waiting for (June Jordan Quotes) I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me (June Jordan Quotes) To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that’s political, in its most profound way (June Jordan Quotes) It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me (June Jordan Quotes) 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 (June Jordan Quotes) My heart is not peripheral to me (June Jordan Quotes)

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