I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.

- Mari Evans

No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerabi…

- Mari Evans

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

- Mari Evans

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

- Mari Evans

Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language o…

- Mari Evans

When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral

- Mari Evans

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

- Mari Evans

I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.

- Mari Evans

Who can be born black and not exult!

- Mari Evans