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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 I was writing myself. I was a poet."

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"I can't read a note of music. I just do it all from ear."

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"Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind."

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"Music fills the infinite to give us infinite joy."

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"Music fills the soul with divine beauty of pure love and life."

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"The conception of background music is changing. You use less and less of it these days."

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"I think if we keep on doing good music and people like us and they buy the magazine because we are in the magazine then they cant basically hate us hopefully."

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"I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures."

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"Music is the doorway that has led me to drawing, photography, and writing."

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"When there is a voice in a piece of music, we tend to focus on the voice. That is probably something from when we were babies and we depended on hearing our mother's voice."

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"Speaking unspoken words,music is a good way to say."

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

People

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June Jordan
"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."

Injustice

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

Being

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June Jordan
"One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!"

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June Jordan
"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."

Travel

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

Family

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June Jordan
"Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law."

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June Jordan
"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."

Violence

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June Jordan
"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."

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

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