June Jordan Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

  June Jordan

  Father, Hero, Tyrants

• The courts cannot garnish a fathers 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.

  June Jordan

  Children, Father, Kids

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.159, Basic Books

• 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

  June Jordan

  Father, Fighting, Taught

• As I think about anyone or anything -- whether history or literature or my father or political organizations or a poem or a film -- as I seek to evaluate the potentiality, the life-supportive commitment and possibilities of anyone or any thing, the decisive question is always where is the love?

  June Jordan

  Father, Commitment, Thinking

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

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