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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
June Jordan
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June Jordan
Age: 65 †
Born: 1936
Born: July 9
Died: 2002
Died: June 14
Essayist
Lgbtiq+ Rights Activist
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Harlem
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June Millicent Jordan
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To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.
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Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.
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The purpose of polite behavior is never virtuous. Deceit, surrender, and concealment these are not virtues. The goal of the mannerly is comfort, per se.
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What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
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My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair
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We are the ones we've been waiting for.
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It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
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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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In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage none of these is normal.
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Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law.
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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify.
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I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
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To believe is to become what you believe.
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That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.
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Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.
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... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.
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One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!
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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.
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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?
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If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?
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