Quotes by Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton

All people, even one’s own children, come with baggage. When they’re little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

Children

Growing Up

People

blessing the boats (at saint mary’s) may the tide that is entering even now the lip of our understanding carry you out beyond the face of fear may you kiss the wind then turn from it certain that it will love your back may you open your eyes to water water waving forever and may you in your innocence sail through this to that

Blessing

Eye

Kissing

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don’t have no sense

Children

Funny

Mama

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Celebrate

Kill Me

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.

Adversity

Break

Made

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

Endure

Eye

Pairs

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Black

Black Women

Sound

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.

Letting Go

New Year

Running

I don’t go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

Accepting

Call Me

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

Knowing

Mean

Water

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Accepting

Adversity

African American

Answers

Art

Attitude

Beautiful

Bird

Black

Black Women

Blessing

Break

Call Me

Celebrate

Children

Clear

Doors

Endure

Eye

Funny

Growing Up

Kill Me

Kissing

Knowing

Language

Letting Go

Life Is

Loneliness

Made

Magic

Mama

Matter

Mean

New Year

Pairs

People

Perception

Play

Poetry Is

Running

Safety

Sound

Telling The Truth

Want

Water

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Quotes by Lucille Clifton

Lucille Clifton

All people, even one’s own children, come with baggage. When they’re little, you have to help them carry it. But when they grow up, you have to do that difficult thing of setting their baggage down and taking up your own again.

Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don’t have no sense

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

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.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

I don’t go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

I keep hearing tree talk water words and i keep knowing what they mean.

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