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
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. – June Jordan
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
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
The flowery Path of Poetry but ill accords with the thorny Mazes of the Law; in the one I have wandered with rapture from Infancy, and I have endeavoured to grace the other with a simple but lasting Ornament—Integrity of Heart. – Charles Snart, “Dedication, to Robert Lowe, Esq. Oxton,” 1807 January 1st, Newar