June Jordan
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
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.
—June Jordan, Moving towards Home: Political Essays
Posted on February 21, 2002 at 11:14 AM
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