Best Quotes by Lucille Clifton (Top 10)
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You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
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may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back
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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
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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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.
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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.
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Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
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they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
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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.
Lucille Clifton
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
Lucille Clifton
More Lucille Clifton Quotes
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
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We cannot create what we can't imagine.
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the lost women I need to know their names those women I would have walked with, jauntily the way men go in groups swinging their arms, and the ones those sweating women whom I would have joined After a hard game to chew the fat what would we have called each other laughing joking into our beer? where are my gangs, my teams, my mislaid sisters? all the women who could have known me, where in the world are their names?
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
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