June Jordan Quote

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? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?


Technical Difficulties: African-American Notes on the State of the Union (ed. Pantheon, 1992)


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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...