June Jordan

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

#become #begin #love #love yourself #most

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. ↗

— June Jordan

#because #involves #poetry #political #political act

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

#deep #each #feel #get #herself

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. ↗

— June Jordan

#anyway #as far as #attitude #been #damage

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

#deprived #dread #every #fears #nation

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. ↗

— June Jordan

#created #greatest #hoping #other #possible

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies? ↗

— June Jordan

#am #bisexuality #free #freedom #i

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. ↗

— June Jordan

#freedom #friendship #going #i #mothers

Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. ↗

— June Jordan

#exist #important #mercy #most #other

CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not. ↗

— June Jordan

#core #i #nonviolence