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    <body><![CDATA[Superb collection of essays. I don't know how I happen to have this in my library, but I was looking to clear my shelves for donations and this popped up. This is a keeper. I think I have a few more books by June Jordan that have now moved up on my priority list of must reads.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book gives me chills.<br/>it's like, when you wake up in the morning after you've been asleep under your warm blankets and you take a step outside your bed, beyond the comfort of your cozy little world, and realize that the world is a cold place, and you start to shiver.  the realization of wha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12098996">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[The best find from my first visit to Park Slope's public library. I had heard of June Jordan many times before but could not quite place her before reading this.      ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[if you're a woman, and you have ever, at all, struggled with what that exactly means or entails, you should read this book. Jordan is insightful and moving and honest, honest, honest. many brave essays on race, gender, class, civic duty...i read it while i was pregnant with my second daughter and it...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/16221794">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this book has traveled with me and has become what some might my call my personal bible...it made me think, a lot, the good kind of thinking that helps to make sense out of things, life, the world, politics, humanity and the lack thereof.  her writings are so vulnerable and feeling, leaving you with...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4052258">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[  Okay, I did not really know who June Jordan was before this book.  The book was on the last chance clearance shelf at a bookstore and I picked it up.  <br/><br/>  I liked more than a few of her essays, but she does have a tendency to run self-righteous at times.]]></body>
    
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