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June Jordan Quotes about Hurt

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To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death:

To rescue our children we will have to let them save us from the power we embody: we will have to trust the very difference that they forever personify. And we will have to allow them the choice, without fear of death: that they may come and do likewise or that they may come and that we will follow them, that a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Love, Hurt, Children

1978 Keynote address for Child Welfare League of America. Collected as 'Old Stories: New Lives' in Moving Towards Home (1989).

Like running trying to live a good life has to hurt a little bit, or we're not running hard enough, not really trying.

Running, Hurt, Good Life

June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.105, Basic Books

That a little child will lead us back to the child we will always be, vulnerable and wanting and hurting for love and for beauty.

Hurt, Children, Littles

June Jordan (2003). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.283, Basic Books

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