Lucille Clifton Quotes

Say it clear, and it will be beautiful. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.

— Lucille Clifton

You cannot play for safety and make art. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

You cannot play for safety and make art.

— Lucille Clifton

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That

— Lucille Clifton

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

— Lucille Clifton

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

— Lucille Clifton

We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our

— Lucille Clifton

My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

My Mama Moved Among the Days My Mama moved among the days

— Lucille Clifton

We cannot create what we can’t imagine. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

We cannot create what we can’t imagine.

— Lucille Clifton

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she

— Lucille Clifton

I am running into a new year and the old years blow Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

I am running into a new year and the old years blow

— Lucille Clifton

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry,

— Lucille Clifton

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

— Lucille Clifton

Intellect doesn’t translate across cultures; intuition does. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Intellect doesn’t translate across cultures; intuition does.

— Lucille Clifton

May you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

May you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back

— Lucille Clifton

The lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

The lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go

— Lucille Clifton

These hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

These hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to

— Lucille Clifton

Don’t write out of what I know; I write out of Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Don’t write out of what I know; I write out of

— Lucille Clifton

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing.

— Lucille Clifton

They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

They ask me to remember but they want me to remember their

— Lucille Clifton

Wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Wishes for sons by Lucille Clifton i wish them cramps. i wish

— Lucille Clifton

All people, even one’s own children, come with baggage. When they’re little, Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

All people, even one’s own children, come with baggage. When they’re little,

— Lucille Clifton

The lost women I need to know their names those women I Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

The lost women I need to know their names those women I

— Lucille Clifton

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

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

— Lucille Clifton

If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice, Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

If i should enter the house and speak with my own voice,

— Lucille Clifton

Telling the truth about children’s lives is radical. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Telling the truth about children’s lives is radical.

— Lucille Clifton

I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

I write from my knowledge not my lack, from my strength not

— Lucille Clifton

Tell the truth… maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Tell the truth… maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

— Lucille Clifton

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

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

— Lucille Clifton

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I

— Lucille Clifton

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us

— Lucille Clifton

I don’t go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

I don’t go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

— Lucille Clifton

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn’t

— Lucille Clifton

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

— Lucille Clifton

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always

— Lucille Clifton

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

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

— Lucille Clifton

Blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

Blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is

— Lucille Clifton

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that’s a mistake.

— Lucille Clifton

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. Lucille Clifton Picture Quote

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

— Lucille Clifton

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