Quotes by June Jordan

So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

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.

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? Isnt that what freedom implies?