Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
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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.June Jordan
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.
June Jordan
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.
June Jordan
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
June Jordan
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.
June Jordan
I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
June Jordan
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