Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a littl… - June Jordan

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Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

June Jordan
Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays of June Jordan

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June Millicent Jordan (9 July 1936 – 14 June 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, essayist, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants.

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I try to use words, whether in prose or poetry, that people can understand, that make them feel in an intense way. I'm a writer, that's what I do.

And when these concepts of race and class and gender absolutely collapse is whenever you try to use them as automatic concepts of connection.

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying. - June Jordan

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