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June Jordan

"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

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"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

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"Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important."
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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."
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"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."
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"CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not."
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"But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966."
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"My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant."
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"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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"In the process of telling the truth about what you feel or what you see, each of us has to get in touch with himself or herself in a really deep, serious way."
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"I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest."
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"To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way."
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