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“ ”What is the moral meaning of our own gods?
About June Jordan
June Millicent Jordan (9 July 1936 – 14 June 2002) was an African-American bisexual political activist, writer, poet, essayist, and teacher, born in Harlem, New York, to Jamaican immigrants.
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I could no longer participate in an exchange requiring acrobatics of self-denial.
And then I understood that the answer is yes, yes yes: I care because I want you to care about me. I care because I have become aware of my absolute dependency upon you, whoever you are, for the outcome of my social, my democratic experience.
In the context of tragedy, all polite behavior is self-denial.