I think I have come to a place where I'm able to feel more comfortable about being honest.
From June Jordan
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.
My father was both the person who gave me reason to learn how to fight and the one who taught me the basics of fighting. He would tell me that if it was a big fight, it would probably be uneven, it wouldn't be fair.
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?
Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
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.
It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.
But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
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!
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.
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