I am a woman searching for her savagery even if it’s doomed - June Jordan

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I am a woman searching for her savagery
even if it’s doomed

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 believe that suffering does not confer virtue upon the victim. Hence it is possible that the slave will become the slaveholder and that the victim will become the executioner.

I could no longer participate in an exchange requiring acrobatics of self-denial.

The State
Lay in wait

Attica Attack Troops
wearing masks
carrying gas cannisters
and proud to be white
proud to be doing
what everyone can
for The Man

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