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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Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity How can I be who I am.June Jordan
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
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It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
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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.
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