June Jordan Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: July 9, 1936 - June 14, 2002
Birthday: July 9
Death: June 14
I am a feminist, and what that means to me is much the same as the meaning of the fact that I am Black: it means that I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.
source: 1978 Address to Black Writers Conference, Howard University. Collected as 'Where Is the Love?' in Moving Towards Home (1989).
topic: Life, Happiness, Success, Loving Myself, Love Yourself More, I Respect Myself, Women Self Respect, African American Women, Black Feminist, Black Motivational, Self Loving, Self Respect And Love, Self Respect In Love
