"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"
"Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth."
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Source: June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.137, Basic Books
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