Her efforts to create free space for her personal liberation serve as a microcosm and model for a general ideal of black community.
The reader coming to June Jordan's work for the first time can be overwhelmed by the breadth and diversity of her concern, and by the wide variety of literary forms in which she expresses them. But the unifying element in all her activities is her fervent dedication to the survival of black people, which she expresses in powerful terms such as "Life: the freedom to live, the freedom to stay alive, the freedom to make life, the freedom to bring new life into and among our lives, the freedom to choose and possess life and again life .... Our lives are not debatable. We are, we have survived, we will be as we will choose for ourselves. We will continue to struggle for our survival and for the freedom of our children who will survive us by every means we choose to use." Given her total commitment to writing about a life beset on all sides, Jordan is forced to address the whole of experience in all its facets and can afford to settle for nothing less.
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