There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.

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• June Jordan:

  The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven

• June Jordan:

  The first function of poetry is to tell the truth, to learn how to do that, to find out what you re

• June Jordan:

  That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage

• June Jordan:

  So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to

• June Jordan:

  Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

• June Jordan:

  One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors sp

• June Jordan:

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

• June Jordan:

  My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me th

• June Jordan:

  Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to chok

• June Jordan:

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