"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
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"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
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"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
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"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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"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."
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"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."
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