June Jordan Love Quotations

We survive our love because we go on loving.

I believe that love is the single, true prosperity of any moment.

I am a stranger, learning to love the strangers around me

To tell the truth is to become beautiful, to begin to love yourself, value yourself. And that's political, in its most profound way.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

To tell the truth is to become beautiful.