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 The courts cannot garnish a fathers 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. June Jordan father kids children 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 country years travel What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart? June Jordan sexuality tyranny heart It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. June Jordan education mean world The neglected legacy of the Sixties is just this: unabashed moral certitude, and the purity -- the incredibly outgoing energy -- of righteous rage. June Jordan moral legacy energy 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. Because, in other words, the powerful don't play; they mean to keep that power, and those who are the powerless (you and me) better shape up --mimic/ape/suck --in the very image of the powerful, or the powerful will destroy you --you and our children. June Jordan CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not. June Jordan nonviolence core committed
