Lucille Clifton Quotes
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 thing.
Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.
Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.
the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.
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.
these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips
People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
The end of a thing, is never the end, something is always being born like a year of a baby.
