Adversity Quote by Lucille Clifton

wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish them a strange town and the last tampon. I wish them no…

— Lucille Clifton

“these hips are big hips. they need space to move around in. they don't fit into little petty places.”

— Lucille Clifton

“a tongue blistered with smiling”

— Lucille Clifton

Intellect doesn't translate across cultures; intuition does.

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

— Lucille Clifton

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

— Lucille Clifton

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

— Lucille Clifton

“walked erect out of my sleep”

— Lucille Clifton

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And…

— Lucille Clifton

If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart the covering over the…

— Lucille Clifton

telling the truth about children's lives is radical.

— Lucille Clifton

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

— Lucille Clifton