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June Jordan

American

July 9, 1936

Writer

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

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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.

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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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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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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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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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