Quote by June Jordan
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started

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

Other quotes by June Jordan

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. – June Jordan

Category:
respect
Read Quote

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. – June Jordan

Category:
Poetry
Read Quote

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

Category:
Black History
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Friendship
category

Plunderous is the palate I gift to you, openly I hug the universe of our friendship expanding its outer limit. – Bradley Chicho

Category:
Friendship

If the chemistry is right between star and photographer and the geometry of the pictures pleases the star, often the two people end up with a long-term professional friendship during which they continue to work together and to produce highly personal images. – Eve Arnold

Category:
Friendship

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded. – Gertrude Stein

Category:
Friendship

Never explain – your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. – Elbert Hubbard

Category:
Friendship

Random Quotes

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

Category:
power

Where there is a will there is a lawsuit. – Addison Mizner

Category:
legal

My dad was dean of fine arts at the university. I was casting bronzes in the school foundry. I was using the university as a playground. – Maya Lin

Category:
dad

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. – William Tecumseh Sherman

Category:
Fear