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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.
Lucille Clifton
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
Lucille Clifton
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
Lucille Clifton
Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
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
they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine.
Lucille Clifton
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.
Lucille Clifton
may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back.
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
born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself?
Lucille Clifton
One thing poetry teaches us, if anything, is that everything is connected...There is so much history that we have not validated.
Lucille Clifton
... A lot of women have borne a lot of things; a lot of people have borne a lot of things. There's a certain kind of human that I want to be. There is not shame in my life. There is certainly misfortune, but I'm not the only one. I do know that. And sometimes, one of the things poetry can do is say to an audience: you are not alone. It can also speak for those who have not yet found their voice to speak. That's part of the human condition. And if we're going to talk about humans, why are we just going to talk about the pretty ones.
Lucille Clifton