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Lucille Clifton Quotes

Lucille Clifton quotes

American Poet June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010

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I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me. Lucille Clifton
blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that Lucille Clifton
the lesson of the falling leavesthe leaves believesuch letting go is lovesuch love is faithsuch faith is gracesuch grace is godi agree with the leaves Lucille Clifton
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. Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton quote: "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
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? Lucille Clifton
listen, you a wonder. you a city of a woman. you got a geographyof your own. listen, somebody need a mapto understand you. somebody need directionsto move around you. listen, woman, you not a noplaceanonymousgirl; mister with his hands on youhe got his hands onsomedamnbody! Lucille Clifton
wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange townand the last tampon. I wish them no 7-11. i wish them one week earlyand wearing a white skirt. i wish them one week late. later i wish them hot flashes and clots like you wouldn't believe. let the flashes come when they meet someone special. let the clots come when they want to. let them think they have accepted arrogance in the universe, then bring them to gynecologists not unlike themselves. Lucille Clifton
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
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
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. Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton quote: "Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced..."
Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure. Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton quote: "I am a black woman poet and I sound like one."
I am a black woman poet and I sound like one. Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton quote: "You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is..."
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. Lucille Clifton
Lucille Clifton quote: "We cannot create what we can't imagine."
We cannot create what we can't imagine. Lucille Clifton

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