Lucille Clifton Quotes

Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was a finalist twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. June 1936 – 13. February 2010
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Famous Lucille Clifton Quotes

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

Source: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980

Lucille Clifton Quotes

“born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?”

The Book of Light (1993), "song at midnight", lines 17–19
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“One thing poetry teaches us, if anything, is that everything is connected…There is so much history that we have not validated.”

On her worldly view of poetry in “Poet Lucille Clifton: 'Everything Is Connected'” https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124113507 in NPR (2010 Feb 28)

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