More From June Jordan
- "But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
- "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."
- "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."
More In Poetry
- "All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears."― Alfred Douglas
- "That is what I did with Jack, and that’s why he liked to do the readings with me because he knew I was there for him, and for our ability to blend the poetry and the music."― David Amram
- "Poets should ignore most criticism and get on with making poetry."― Anne Stevenson