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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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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 believe is to become what you believe.
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What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?
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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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We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived.
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To tell the truth is to become beautiful.
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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
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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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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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... 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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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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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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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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Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
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Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.
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In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way.
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and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees) then let love freeze me out. (from i must become a menace to my enemies)
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