June Jordan Quotes

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.

We are all children searching for love.

It doesn't matter how old you are, there is a little child within who needs love and acceptance.

If blue is dream what then innocence? What awaits the heart if Love bears no arrows?

I'm just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

Maybe I'm sort of like the players - there's still a lot of little boy in me.

Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

I raised two sons, and I know that even though they're bigger and stronger than I am, they're still little boys inside. They still cry, they still hurt. So whenever I write a male character, no matter how 'heroic' he may be, I think of my sons. And I remember that every man was once a little boy.

Kids are the most beautiful beings that can come into your life.

I have a soft spot for children.

I wept because I was re-experiencing the enthusiasm of my childhood; I was once again a child, and nothing in the world could cause me harm.

Love is like ice in the hands of children.

The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.

In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child.

Love is a naked child: do you think he has pockets for money?

I held out my arms to him and he came to me like a child.

It is a blessing as well as a burden to love so much that you can hurt so badly when love is gone.

It may be a movement towards becoming like little children to admit that we are generally nothing else.

Inside every adult there's still a child that lingers.

What is it about childhood that never lets you go, even when you're so wrecked it's hard to believe you ever were a child?

You have no idea what it is to have anybody wonderful fond of you, unless you have been got down and rolled upon by the lonely feelings that I have mentioned as having once got the better of me.

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Why children?' he asked. 'Why always children? For love to end where it begins is far more beautiful, and Nature knows it.

My children inspire me with their innocence and enormous capacity to love.

The study of love and its utilization will lead us to the source from which it springs, The Child.