June Jordan
June Jordan
June Millicent Jordanwas a Caribbean-American bisexual poet and activist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 July 1936
CountryUnited States of America
beautiful stars mean
Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.
beautiful love-yourself profound
To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
beautiful love-yourself i-love-myself
To tell the truth is to become beautiful.
apparently behalf cannot car couch courts freeze kid nor property seize
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 this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.
CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.
legacy energy moral
The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage.
expectations atmosphere revolution
Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.
friendship mother young
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
heart sexuality tyranny
What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
powerful mean poetry
What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
law justice united-states
The United States Supreme Court, once a reliable if ultimate recourse for progressive and even revolutionary grievances, has become a retrograde wellspring for enormous economic and social distress.
father hero tyrants
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
strong democracy welfare
A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak.
children motherhood thinking
Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.