Author: June Jordan

Quotes

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

- June Jordan

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.

- June Jordan

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

- June Jordan

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?

- June Jordan

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.

- June Jordan

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

- 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.

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

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