June Jordan
Sign in to saveAlso known as June Millicent Jordan
American poet, essayist, playwright, feminist, bisexual activist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 9 July 1936
- Died
- 14 June 2002
- Works
- 55
Top works
- Poem
- We the Resistance
- Soulscript
- His own where
- Civil Wars
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1948-10-17
- Active to
- 2007-09-16
author
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 196
- Total plays
- 1,043
Tags
spoken wordpoetryafrican american voices
June Millicent Jordan (July 9, 1936 – June 14, 2002) was a bisexual Caribbean-American writer and activist. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/June+Jordan">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,879x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,202x
- The organization of the human cerebral cortex estimated by intrinsic functional connectivity
· 2011 · cited 9,215x
- From local explanations to global understanding with explainable AI for trees
· 2020 · cited 8,635x
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Quotes
- “And who will join this standing up and the ones who stood without sweet company will sing and sing back into the mountains and if necessary even under the sea we are the ones we have been waiting for”
- “If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.”
- “As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth — whatever the truth may be — that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life.”
- “Body and soul, Black America reveals the extreme questions of contemporary life, questions of freedom and identity: How can I be who I am?”
- “We, we know the individuality that isolates the man from other men, the either/or, the lonely-one that leads the flesh to clothing, jewelry, and land, the solitude of sight that separates the people from the people, flesh from flesh, that jams material between the spirit and the spirit. We have suffered witness to these pitiful, and murdering, masquerade extensions of the self.Instead, we choose a real, a living enlargement of our only life. We choose community.”
- “Efficiency, competence: Black students know the deadly, neutral definition of these words. There seldom has been a more efficient system for profiteering, through human debasement, than the plantations, of a while ago. Today, the whole world sits, as quietly scared as it can sit, afraid that, tomorrow, America may direct its efficiency and competence toward another forest for defoliation, or clean-cut laser-beam extermination.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- June
- Family name
- Jordan
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Harlem
- Place of death
- Berkeley
- Occupation
- playwright
- Educated at
- Northfield Mount Hermon School
- Employer
- Sarah Lawrence College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- essay
- Official website
- www.junejordan.com
Show 7 more facts
- date of birth
- 1936-07-09
- date of death
- 2002-06-14
- cause of death
- breast cancer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- ethnic group
- African Americans
- sexual orientation
- bisexuality
- archives at
- Schlesinger Library
Sources (7)
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