“In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt), and exemplary moral courage; none of these is normal.”

— June Jordan

Source: Black Studies: Bringing Back The Person (1969), p. 48

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Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist 1936–2002

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