Quotes by Jordan, June

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love th >>

Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of >>

If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the Ame >>

Quotations about Words

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All words are part true and part false. >>

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make c >>

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June