June Jordan

I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest. ↗

— June Jordan

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It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me. ↗

— June Jordan

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My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. ↗

— June Jordan

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The 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

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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. ↗

— June Jordan

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