June 2012
46 posts
“Our fifth graders are planning a program around your book for the morning and...”
– in a letter from school librarian Alice Harris to June Jordan in 1970. June Jordan wrote exclamation marks in pen on the letter.
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http://www.mobilehomecoming.org/2012/06/02/pridepassionjune-mobile-homecoming-social-media-celebrates-pride/
“Black women in America: Black women issues, Black women priorities, Black women...”
– June Jordan in an angry letter to Chrysalis Literary Magazine listing those of us who are NOT served by their racist editorial practices.
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“This is a good time
This is the best time
This is the only time to come...”
– -June Jordan “From Sea to Shining Sea”
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http://www.mobilehomecoming.org/2012/06/02/pridepassionjune-mobile-homecoming-social-media-celebrates-pride/
“vivir libre
vivir libre
vivir libre
o morir!”
– -June Jordan “Dance: Nicaragua”
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“anyone who becomes a practicing poet has an excellent chance of becoming...”
– -June Jordan in Poetry for the People 1995
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“I believe that issue of a home for Lisa Steinberg and the question of a home for...”
– June Jordan “Finding the Way Home” in Technical Difficulties
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“would you turn her treat
into surprise by
observing
happy birthday”
– -June Jordan’s “If You Saw a Negro Lady”
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http://www.mobilehomecoming.org/2012/06/02/pridepassionjune-mobile-homecoming-social-media-celebrates-pride/
“you will be god to bless you
Mary Brown.”
– -June Jordan “For Beautiful Mary Brown: Chicago Rent Strike Leader” #pridepassionjune
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“We survive our love
because we go on
loving.”
– -June Jordan “Grand Army Plaza”
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“one full Black lily
luminescent
in a homemade field
of love”
– -June Jordan’s “1977: Poem for Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer” #pridepassionjune
“deify
the thing within
all of it.”
– -June Jordan from “Poem for the Poet Alexis De Veaux”
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“Silence will nothing redeem
into body or bud
for the actual fight.”
– June Jordan, ”1981: On Call”
“We need everybody and all that we are. We need to know and make known the...”
– -June Jordan from “Notes Toward a Black Balancing of Love and Hatred” (1974) in Civil Wars #pridepassionjune
http://www.mobilehomecoming.org/2012/06/02/pridepassionjune-mobile-homecoming-social-media-celebrates-pride/
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Important New Resource for Transgender Elders! →
The LGBT center has updated its site with new resources for Transgender elders and organizations and service providers who work with our elders. Spread the word!
love,
Lex and Julia mobilehomecoming.org
“Maybe I should just love myself myself
(anyhow I’m more familiar with the...”
– -from June Jordan’s “Free Flight” in Passion (1977-1980)
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““she said A Righteous Mouth/ ain nothin you should hide….
just...”
– from June Jordan’s “A Song of Sojourner Truth” (dedicated to Bernice Johnson Reagon) in Passion New Poems 1977-1980
#pridepassionjune: mobile homecoming celebrates...
It is June!!! My (Lex’s) birthday month and pride month and the official launch of the Mobile Homecoming social media presence so how do we want to celebrate? With the words of our beloved chosen ancestor June Jordan of course! This month as we remind you to help us get 30 new Monthly Sustainers we will be signal boosting the brilliance of June Jordan especially her passionate words...
