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 just kept.
We cannot create what we can't imagine. - Lucille Clifton
We cannot create what we can't imagine.
- 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… - 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.
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…
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.
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 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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