June Jordan

There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty…

But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom…

In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see…

That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway…

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown…

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

The courts cannot garnish a father’s salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property…

I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as…

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself…

The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do…

I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in…