June Jordan
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June Jordan (July 9, 1936-June 14, 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, essayist, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants.
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- Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?
- Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person, from Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1989)
- In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.
- Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person, from Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1989)
- As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth—whatever the truth may be—that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.
- On Call, ch. 10 (1985)
- If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.
- The Case for the Real Majority, from Moving Towards Home: Political Essays (1982, repr. 1989).
[edit] External links
- "June Jordan." The Guardian. Busby, Margaret., June 20, 2002.
- June Jordan. Accessed on February 6, 2005.
- Review of Jordan's April 10, 1999
- "June Jordan, 65, Poet and Political Activist, Dies." Smith, Dinitia, New York Times. June 18, 2002.
- Audio Interview with Jordan
- PBS New York Writers Link
