June Jordan Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“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 that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.”

“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.”

“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.”

“My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.”

“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 was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.”

“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!”

“CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.”

“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.”

“It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.”