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Lucille Clifton quotes: They will empty your eyes of everything you love

They will empty your eyes of everything you love

Lucille Clifton quotes: You cannot play for safety and make art.

You cannot play for safety and make art.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Tell the truth ... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

Tell the truth ... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

Lucille Clifton quotes: The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.

Lucille Clifton quotes: What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

Lucille Clifton quotes: And at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.

And at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.

Was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.

Lucille Clifton quotes: I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.

Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.

Lucille Clifton quotes: 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.

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.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

Lucille Clifton quotes: dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.

dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.

Lucille Clifton quotes: so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world

so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world

Lucille Clifton quotes: You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.

You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.

Lucille Clifton quotes: We cannot create what we can't imagine.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.

Lucille Clifton quotes: The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Lucille Clifton quotes: I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

Lucille Clifton quotes: These hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips

These hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips

Lucille Clifton quotes: To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Lucille Clifton quotes: walked erect out of my sleep

walked erect out of my sleep

Lucille Clifton quotes: I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?

Who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?

Lucille Clifton quotes: I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense

Lucille Clifton quotes: Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Lucille Clifton quotes: Telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

Telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

Lucille Clifton quotes: May you kissthe wind then turn from itcertain that it willlove your back

May you kiss
the wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back

Lucille Clifton quotes: Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

Lucille Clifton quotes: They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine