It is rare that I feel connected to any author in the way that I feel emotionally and spiritually connected to Ms. Jordan, through her writing. Like “This is the meaning of poverty: when you have nothing better to do than to hate somebody who, just exactly like yourself, has nothing better to do than to pick on you instead of trying to figure out how come there's nothing better to … Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations, Select the department you want to search in, + No Import Fees Deposit & $9.63 Shipping to Germany. There's a problem loading this menu right now. .

Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays (New and and Selected Essays) by June Jordan (2003…. Her twenty-eight books include poetry, essays, fiction, and children’s books.

Enabling JavaScript in your browser will allow you to experience all the features of our site. },Martin Luther King, Jr. and his womanising...She touched on each of these subjects in essays, rails about the lack of spending in research in breast cancer, goes to a LA synagogue for Shabbat service after a psychotic gunmen had opened fire at a Jewish day care centre,speaks about her son and his childhood friend, Daniel Pearl, who had been brutally murdered in pakistan,wonders aloud about the racial implication of the 2000 election and the curiopus way it was handled in Fla., speaks on rape in blunt,terrifying fashion. She kept waiting for humanity to rise to her expectation but what she did while waiting was pretty damn great. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 12, 2014. "Reamy Jansen, San Francisco Chronicle*Some of Us Did Not Die brings together a rich sampling of the late poet June Jordan's prose writings. - And maybe the unity of restistance to hatred that will stop that hatred seems improbable.

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Decades worth of activism, humanitarianism, criticism all written with such stirring force. When I did and will again, essay by essay over the course of this year and many more to come.

"She remains a thinker and activist who 'insists upon complexity.' What a writer. -- Terry McMillan "The sweep of his work has both grandeur and genius, and even when you disagree with him, he has you laughing, often at yourself.

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