Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples. June Jordan More Quotes by June Jordan More Quotes From June Jordan Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies. June Jordan diversity successful justice Anytime you see white men suppose to fight each other an you not white, well you know you got trouble, because they blah-blah loud about Democrat or Republican an they huffing an puff about democracy someplace else but relentless, see, the deal come down evil on somebody don have no shirt an tie, somebody don live in no whiteman house no whiteman country. June Jordan fighting men country To believe is to become what you believe. June Jordan believe I am not wrong: Wrong is not my name June Jordan names As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life. June Jordan taught may children Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine. June Jordan freedom sake self 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 perspective views believe As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. June Jordan poet hate 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 worry two way 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 girl hippie children Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. June Jordan pie towns sides 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 white joy men My heart is not peripheral to me. June Jordan my-heart heart Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations. June Jordan atmosphere rising expectations 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 want men mean Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important. June Jordan whats-important important people When that devil's bullet lodged itself inside the body of Martin Luther King, he had already begun an astonishing mobilization of poor, Black, white, latino Americans who had nothing to lose. They would challenge our government to eliminate exploitative, merciless, and war-mongering policies, nationwide, or else "tie up the country" through "means of civil disobedience." Dr. King intended to organize those legions into "coercive direct actions" that would make of Babylon a dysfunctional behemoth begging for relief. Is it any wonder he was killed? June Jordan kings war country As I am a poet I express what I believe, and I fight against whatever I oppose, in poetry. June Jordan i-believe fighting believe A democratic state is not proven by the welfare of the strong but by the welfare of the weak. June Jordan welfare democracy strong 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 language important writing
