Lucille Clifton Quotes
30 quotes • Poet • Age 73
"You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking."
"may you kissthe wind then turn from itcertain that it willlove your back"
"the lesson of the falling leavesthe leaves believesuch letting go is lovesuch love is faithsuch faith is gracesuch grace is godi agree with the leaves"
"I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me."
"won't you celebrate with mewhat i have shaped intoa kind of life? i had no model.born in babylonboth nonwhite and womanwhat did i see to be except myself?i made it uphere on this bridge betweenstarshine and clay,my one hand holding tightmy other hand; come celebratewith me that everydaysomething has tried to kill meand has failed."
"listen,you a wonder.you a city of a woman.you got a geographyof your own.listen,somebody need a mapto understand you.somebody need directionsto move around you.listen,woman,you not a noplaceanonymousgirl;mister with his hands on youhe got his hands onsomedamnbody!"
"don’t write out of what I know; I write out of what I wonder. I think most artists create art in order to explore, not to give the answers. Poetry and art are not about answers to me; they are about questions."
"What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else."
"they ask me to rememberbut they want me to remembertheir memoriesand I keep on remembering mine"
"Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure."
"We cannot create what we can't imagine."
"Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed."