June Jordan Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Self-determination has to mean that the leader is your individual gut, and heart, and mind or we're talking about power, again, and its rather well-known impurities. Who is really going to care whether you live or die and who is going to know the most intimate motivation for your laughter and your tears is the only person to be trusted to speak for you and to decide what you will or will not do.

  June Jordan

  Success, Determination, Laughter

  June Jordan (1981). “Civil Wars”, Beacon Pr

• If we even tolerate any oppression of gay and lesbian Americans, if we join those who would intrude upon the choices of our hearts, then who among us shall be free?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Gay, Justice

• ... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Careers, Community

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

• My heart is not peripheral to me.

  June Jordan

  Heart, My Heart

• What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart?

  June Jordan

  Heart, Sexuality, Tyranny

  June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books

• Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life.

  June Jordan

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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