All Lucille Clifton Quotes
- I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone knows whether or not I… Admired
- The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby. Baby
- Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense Ask
- Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words… Apart
- 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.… Been
- If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the dusty… Apart
- Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of… Adversity
- What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. Answer
- Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed. Celebrate
- Say it clear, and it will be beautiful. Beautiful
- I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. Hearing
- Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing. Inspirational
- Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. Inspirational
- My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days like a dreamwalker in a field; seemed like what she touched was here… Among
- Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible. Clearly
- 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… Beyond
- 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… Agree
- 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… All
- 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… Babylon
- 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… All