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June Jordan

“If you can finally go to the bathroom wherever you find one, if you can finally order a cup of coffee and drink it wherever coffee is available, but you cannot follow your heart-you cannot respect the response of your own honest body in the world-then how much of what kind of freedom does any one of us possess?
Or, conversely, if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force?”

June Jordan, Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays
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Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays by June Jordan
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