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
Works
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)