The courts cannot garnish a father’s salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat. June Jordan Read Quote
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? June Jordan Read Quote
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966. June Jordan Read Quote
Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people’s formulations of what’s important. June Jordan Read Quote
I think I have come to a place where I’m able to feel more comfortable about being honest. June Jordan Read Quote
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. June Jordan Read Quote
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. June Jordan Read Quote
My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant. June Jordan Read Quote
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! June Jordan Read Quote
