But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. – June Jordan
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. – June Jordan
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didnt know the poems would travel. I didnt 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
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