"Jordan makes us think of Akhmatova, of Neruda. She is among the bravest of us, the most outraged. She feels for all. She is the universal poet."
                                         —Alice Walker

"Whatever her theme or mode, June Jordan continually delineates the conditions of survival—of the body, and mind, and the heart."
                                         —Adrienne Rich

"In political journalism that cuts like razors, in essays that blast the darkness of confusion with relentless light; in poetry that looks as closely into lilac buds as into death’s mouth….she has comforted, explained, described, wrestled with, taught and made us laugh out loud before we wept…I am talking about a span of forty years of tireless activism coupled with and fueled by flawless art."
                                         —Toni Morrison