"Children when they ask you why your mama……" — Lucille Clifton
"Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense"
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31 Quotes by Lucille Clifton
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I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not my weakness. I am not interested if anyone…
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The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
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Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made…
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these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do.…
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If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, at last, about its awful furnitutre, pulling apart…
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Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did…
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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
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Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
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I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.
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Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.
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Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
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