The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.
June JordanTo tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.
June JordanGood 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.
June JordanSelf-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.
June Jordan