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
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. – 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
We are the wrong people of the wrong skin in the wrong continent and what in the hell is everybody being reasonable about? – June Jordan