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> [I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/i-try-for-a-poetic-language-that-says-this-is-who-we-are-where-we/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

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## More by Mari Evans

> [Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/education-is-the-jewel-casting-brilliance-into-the-future/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [“When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral. Curiosity seekers... coming to see if I am really Dead or just trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/when-i-die-i-m-sure-i-will-have-a-big-funeral-curiosity-seekers/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [“I will bring you a whole person and you will bring me a whole person and we will have us twice as much of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/i-will-bring-you-a-whole-person-and-you-will-bring-me-a-whole-person/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/idiom-is-larger-than-geography-it-is-the-hot-breath-of-a-people/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/i-m-gonna-spread-out-over-america-intrude-my-proud-blackness-all-over/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [Who can be born black and not exult!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/who-can-be-born-black-and-not-exult/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [To identify the enemy is to free the mind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/to-identify-the-enemy-is-to-free-the-mind/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [I have never been contained except I made the prison.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/i-have-never-been-contained-except-i-made-the-prison/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/when-i-die-i-m-sure-i-will-have-a-big-funeral/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/for-the-span-of-my-memory-this-has-been-a-city-of-opposing-wills/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/i-am-a-black-woman-the-music-of-my-song-some-sweet-arpeggio-of-tears/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/the-not-so-simple-truth-is-that-we-must-be-psychologically-free-in/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/i-try-for-a-poetic-language-that-says-this-is-who-we-are-where-we/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

> [No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mari-evans/no-single-living-entity-really-influenced-my-life-as-did-my-father-he/)

[Mari Evans](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mari-evans/)

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