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 dominance. Poetry is powerful but it cannot even aspire to dominate anyone. It means making a connection. That's what it means.
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
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
We are the ones we've been waiting for. - June Jordan
We are the ones we've been waiting for.
If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable. - June Jordan
If you are free, you are not predictable and you are not controllable.
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
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…
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth. - June Jordan
Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires. - June Jordan
Like a lot of Black women, I have always had to invent the power my freedom requires.
To tell the truth is to become beautiful. - June Jordan
To tell the truth is to become beautiful.
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
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…
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me - June Jordan
I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me
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