June Jordan

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

- June Jordan

"I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black; it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect."

- June Jordan

"We are the ones we’ve been waiting for."

- June Jordan