In my original post her year of birth was wrongly given as 1938; my sincere apologies.
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Venugopalan K M <[email protected]>wrote: > http://www.theroot.com/views/bomb-root-june-jordan-interview > > June Jordan (1936-2002) > > > “Everybody wants to be somebody’s straight up number one.” It’s sexual, > it’s exclusive, but it doesn’t mean the closing off of the rest of the > world. It’s a happy starting place. It’s a huge excitement, not ho-hum. To > be very excited about somebody else and have that somebody else be very > excited about you, is very wonderful. This is the way to go, and that’s what > I mean by love. I don’t mean anything other than that...Yeah. It’s coming > out of yourself, really. It’s a deeply appreciative and enthusiastic > awareness of somebody else. I mean, in general. It’s what we’re living for > and that’s what I’m fighting for. I think of myself as a political person > doing whatever I do, but basically what I aim for is to make love a > reasonable possibility. ‘Cause if things are really horrifying all the time, > I don’t think it is a reasonable possibility. If we’re living in a climate > of awesome cruelty exercised by folks who have power over us, it can happen, > but I don’t think it becomes reasonable. But it’s that possibility that > makes living worthwhile. My commitment to love is not an alternative to my > political commitments. It’s the same thing.." > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "humanrights movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/humanrights-movement?hl=en.
