Best Quotes by Lucille Clifton (Top 10)

  1. You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
  2. may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back
  3. the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves
  4. What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
  5. I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.
  6. won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.
  7. Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
  8. they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
  9. don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions.
  10. Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

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