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 like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.
We cannot create what we can't imagine. - Lucille Clifton
We cannot create what we can't imagine.
- Lucille Clifton
Say it clear, and it will be beautiful. - Lucille Clifton
Say it clear, and it will be beautiful.
In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different… - 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 that's a whole different…
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 what did i see to be exce… - Lucille Clifton
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 what did i see to be exce…
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. - Lucille Clifton
Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else. - Lucille Clifton
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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 am familiar with big wo… - Lucille Clifton
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 am familiar with big wo…
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. - Lucille Clifton
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means t… - Lucille Clifton
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means t…
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