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 JordanFreedom 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.
June JordanTo 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... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.
June Jordan