To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And thats political, in its most profound way. – June Jordan
That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes. – June Jordan
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
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