June Jordan Quotes

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.

The more we can be in a relationship with those who might seem strange to us, the more we can feel like we're neighbors and all members of the human family.

One of my impulses in acting has always to make people feel less alone.

I don't want anyone to ever feel they are alone and no one likes them, or to feel as insecure as I did.

We can all fight against loneliness by engaging in random acts of kindness.

I think I felt very alone for a lot of my life, but once I was able to share my story more and more, and people wouldn't say, 'Hey, I felt sorry for you,' but, 'I get it, and I understand you,' it kind of encouraged me to tell it more. I just don't want people to feel alone.

Acceptance is the truest kinship with humanity.

I always tend to write about outsiders. And what's been fun for me is, as I travel around and visit schools, is that other kids that feel the same way relate to some of my characters, and so I hope in some way that's helping them when they want to read about somebody that they can relate to.

What air is to the body, to feel understood is to the heart.

To have influence, you really don't need to have power. But what you need more than anything else is to have that almost uncanny understanding of what matters to people.

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewing a sense of community, practicing letting go of rigid us-vs.-them thinking - while cultivating power and clarity in response to difficult situations.

In those early years in New York when I was a stranger in a big city, it was the companionship and later friendship which I was offered in the Linnean Society that was the most important thing in my life.

I feel a kinship with anyone who feels that their road, their life or who they really are is not good enough. I really relate to that.

Home is not where you live, but where they understand you.

I think what makes us human - is our interconnectedness among people. It's our ability to form and maintain relationships. It's the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

I think, really, that the only way a person can open their heart to someone who is so much another is really by knowing them... whether that's in a classroom, or a soccer team, or a food pantry, or any of those things. I mean, we're kind of more alike than we are different.

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

I have tried to be more relatable, but I won't be relatable to everybody.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.