What's important about poetry in the context of leadership is that most of the time, power has to do with dominance. But poetry is never about domina…

- June Jordan

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

- 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…

- June Jordan

Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.

- June Jordan

And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even unde…

- June Jordan

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.

- June Jordan

We are the ones we've been waiting for.

- June Jordan

If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.

- June Jordan

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

- June Jordan