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June Jordan Quotes Page 2 of 2June Jordan July 9, 1936 - June 14, 2002 Nationality: American Category: Writer Subcategory: American Writer
| Language is political. That's why you and me, my Brother and Sister, that's why we supposed to choke our natural self into the weird, lying, barbarous, unreal, white speech and writing habits that the schools lay down like holy law. | 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 and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect. |
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