June Jordan Quote

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives


Civil Wars (ed. Beacon Pr, 1981) - ISBN: 9780807032329


When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, ...

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, ...

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, ...

When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different... we laughed at them. We condemned them, ...