top of page

"That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Attitude quotes

"Learn to process what happens as a positive."

"The energy you bring, positive or negative, dictates your perceptions, receptions and radiations."

"People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."

"Attitude is your acceptance of the natural laws, or your rejection of the natural laws."

"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."

"It is better to be positive than negative."
Explore more quotes by June Jordan


"Bisexuality 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?"


"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."


"I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic."


"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."


"We do not deride the fears of prospering white America. A nation of violence and private property has every reason to dread the violated and the deprived."


"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."


"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
bottom of page