Lucille Clifton Quotes
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They will empty your eyes of everything you love
— Lucille Clifton
You cannot play for safety and make art.
— Lucille Clifton
Tell the truth ... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.
— Lucille Clifton
The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
— Lucille Clifton
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
— Lucille Clifton
Was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.
— Lucille Clifton
I come to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable.
— Lucille Clifton
Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
— Lucille Clifton
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
Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
— Lucille Clifton
dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.
— Lucille Clifton
so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world
— Lucille Clifton
We cannot create what we can't imagine.
— Lucille Clifton
The literature of America should reflect the children of America.
— Lucille Clifton
I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
— Lucille Clifton
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
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
— Lucille Clifton
walked erect out of my sleep
— Lucille Clifton
I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.
— Lucille Clifton
Who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud?
— Lucille Clifton
I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
— Lucille Clifton
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
— Lucille Clifton
Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
— Lucille Clifton
Telling the truth about children's lives is radical.
— Lucille Clifton
May you kissthe wind then turn from it
certain that it will
love your back — Lucille Clifton
Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
— Lucille Clifton
