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June Jordan
 
Name:   June Jordan
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Jul 9, 1936
 
Date of Death:   Jun 14,  2002
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
 
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Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.
 
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So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.
 
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There are two ways to worry words. One is hoping for the greatest possible beauty in what is created. The other is to tell the truth.
 
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But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.
 
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CORE was committed to nonviolence, but I was not.
 
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One of the reasons I came to Berkeley was because I saw so many students of all different colors speaking so many different languages and ferociously presenting all these different views. I thought, this is the 21st century and I want to be here!
 
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know the poems would travel. I didn't go to Lebanon until two years ago, but people told me that many Arabs had memorized these poems and translated them into Arabic.
 
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