Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.
June JordanBisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?
June JordanBut, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
June JordanLately... Americans have begun to understand that trouble does not start somewhere on the other side of town. It seems to originate inside the absolute middle of the homemade cherry pie. In our history, the state has failed to respond to the weak. You could be white, male, Presbyterian and heterosexual besides, but if you get fired or if you get sick tomorrow, you might as well be Black, for all the state will want to hear from you.
June Jordan