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.
June JordanOur children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.
June JordanThe 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