June Jordan Quotes

• Somos los que estábamos esperando.

  Junio Jordan

  Change, Life Changing, Yes We Can

  June Jordan, “Poem For South African Women”

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• Maybe the purpose of being here, wherever we are, is to increase the durability and occasions of love among and between peoples.

  Junio Jordan

  Purpose, Durability, Increase

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

  Junio Jordan

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, Profound

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• Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

  Junio Jordan

  Freedom, Power, African American

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.137, Basic Books

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

  Junio Jordan

  Political, Brilliant, Telling The Truth

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• If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

  Junio Jordan

  Si

  "Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union".

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• And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea: we are the ones we have been waiting for.

  Junio Jordan

  Sweet, Sea, Waiting

  June Jordan (1998). “Affirmative Acts: Political Essays”, Anchor

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• To believe is to become what you believe.

  Junio Jordan

  Creer

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• Revolution always unfolds inside an atmosphere of rising expectations.

  Junio Jordan

  Expectations, Atmosphere, Rising

  June Jordan (1992). “Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union”, Pantheon

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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.

  Junio Jordan

  Powerful, Mean, Poetry

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• Soy feminista, y lo que eso significa para mí es casi lo mismo que el significado del hecho de ser negra: significa que debo comprometerme a amarme a mí misma y a respetarme como si mi propia vida dependiera del amor y el respeto a mí misma.

  Junio Jordan

  Vida, Felicidad, Éxito

  1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

  Junio Jordan

  Beautiful, Love Yourself, I Love Myself

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• I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

  Junio Jordan

  Stranger, Learning To Love

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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. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, 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.

  Junio Jordan

  Love, Hurt, Children

  1978 Keynote address for Child Welfare League of America. Collected as 'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

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• Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

  Junio Jordan

  Success, Determination, Laughter

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

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• Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

  Junio Jordan

  Hermosa, Estrellas, Media

  June Jordan (2004). “Soulscript: a collection of African American poetry”, Broadway

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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.

  Junio Jordan

  Way, Serious, 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.

  Junio Jordan

  Successful, Justice, Diversity

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• Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie.

  Junio Jordan

  Pie, Towns, Sides

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• Freedom is indivisible, and either we are working for freedom or you are working for the sake of your self-interests and I am working for mine.

  Junio Jordan

  Freedom, Self, Sake

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

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• As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.

  Junio Jordan

  Children, May, Taught

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.133, Basic Books

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• En cuerpo y alma, la América negra revela las cuestiones extremas de la vida contemporánea, cuestiones de libertad e identidad: ¿Cómo puedo ser quien soy?

  Junio Jordan

  Who I Am, America, Soul

  1969 'Black Studies: Bringing Back the Person', in the Evergreen Review, Oct.

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• To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

  Junio Jordan

  Hands, Agony, Opening

  June Jordan (2012). “Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan”, p.11, Copper Canyon Press

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• My heart is not peripheral to me.

  Junio Jordan

  Corazón, corazón mío

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• As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

  Junio Jordan

  Love, Hate, Names

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