Quotes by : Lucille Clifton

the lost womenI need to know their namesthose women I would have walked with,jauntily the way men go....

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

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to....

won't you celebrate with mewhat i have shaped intoa kind of life? i had no model.born in babylonboth....