June Jordan Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Good poetry and successful revolution change our lives. And you cannot compose a good poem or wage a revolution without changing consciousness unless you attack the language that you share with your enemies and invent a language that you share with your allies.

  June Jordan

  Successful, Justice, Diversity

• That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.

  June Jordan

  Attitude, Fighting, Political

• and if i if i ever let love go because the hatred and the whisperings become a phantom dictate i o- bey in lieu of impulse and realities (the blossoming flamingos of my wild mimosa trees) then let love freeze me out. (from i must become a menace to my enemies)

  June Jordan

  Reality, Hatred, Tree

  June Jordan (2012). “Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan”, p.232, Copper Canyon Press

• ... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

  June Jordan

  Determination, Blood, Self

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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