Some Of Us Did Not Die: Selected EssaysBasic Books, 5 авг. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 320 “Forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art.” —Toni Morrison Some of Us Did Not Die brings together the seminal essays of June Jordan, the widely acclaimed Black American writer known for her fierce commitment to human rights and political activism. Spanning the length of her extraordinary career, and including her last writings, the essays in this collection reveal Jordan as an incisive analyst of injustice, democracy, and literature. Willing to venture into the most painful contradictions of culture and politics, Jordan comes back with lyrical honesty, wit, and wide-ranging intelligence that resonates sharply to this day. |
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... means me no good. For me, it's a mind game with everything at stake. For example, what has what kind of savagery blurred or blocked or buried alive? This is an excerpt from my Poem To Take Back The Night: O. NCE THROUGH the fires of ...
... means me no good. For me, it's a mind game with everything at stake. For example, what has what kind of savagery blurred or blocked or buried alive? This is an excerpt from my Poem To Take Back The Night: O. NCE THROUGH the fires of ...
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... means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own. Before Barnard, I didn't even know there was a Parthenon, or a Pantheon— these are ideas ...
... means to forget, what it means to fail to find and preserve the connection with the dead whose lives you, or I, want or need to honor with our own. Before Barnard, I didn't even know there was a Parthenon, or a Pantheon— these are ideas ...
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... mean, why is that our universal situation? And when will we revolt against our marginalized, pseudomaverick status and assert our majority, our indispensabletothespecies' power—and I do mean power: our verifiable ability to change ...
... mean, why is that our universal situation? And when will we revolt against our marginalized, pseudomaverick status and assert our majority, our indispensabletothespecies' power—and I do mean power: our verifiable ability to change ...
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... means you owe something big to those whose lives are taken away from them.” And two things happened for me: I ... means towards mourning and remembering who and what we loved? Is there an honorable means to pursue and capture the ...
... means you owe something big to those whose lives are taken away from them.” And two things happened for me: I ... means towards mourning and remembering who and what we loved? Is there an honorable means to pursue and capture the ...
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... means to him. Can you imagine? He'd rather lose the Presidency than stand with black folks!” And then I was standing with Sweet Honey in the Rock's Bernice Johnson Reagon, who was preaching, clear as clear: “Oh, we really do vote ...
... means to him. Can you imagine? He'd rather lose the Presidency than stand with black folks!” And then I was standing with Sweet Honey in the Rock's Bernice Johnson Reagon, who was preaching, clear as clear: “Oh, we really do vote ...
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