“Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's f...” — June Jordan Quote

“Consequently, most of us really exist at the mercy of other people's formulations of what's important.”

“It means to educate myself incessantly about the world around me.”

“The courts cannot garnish a father's salary, nor freeze his account, nor seize his property on behalf of his children, in our society. Apparently this is because a kid is not a car or a couch or a boat.”

“So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.”

“That attitude that fighting is probably not fair, but you have to defend yourself anyway and damage the enemy, has been profoundly consequential as far as my political activism goes.”

“But, based on my friendship with Evie as young mothers, I started going on freedom rides in 1966.”

“The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.”

“These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar.”

“The Internet goes doot-doot-doot - it goes sideways. There's nothing hierarchical about it. And the best thing about it is also the worst thing about it, which is there are no gatekeepers on the Internet. Consequently, there's a whole lot of bad information on the Internet. But I think that sorts itself out over time.”

“We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.”

“I have no illusions about my art. I am what the public made me and, consequently, I am not likely to forget my debt to them.”