You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.
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Lucille Clifton
the lesson of the falling leaves
the leaves believe
such letting go is love
such love is faith
such faith is grace
such grace is god
i agree with the leaves
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Lucille Clifton
they ask me to remember
but they want me to remember
their memories
and I keep on remembering mine
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Lucille Clifton
I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people’s craziness has not managed to make me crazy.
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Lucille Clifton
What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.
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Lucille Clifton
One thing poetry teaches us, if anything, is that everything is connected…There is so much history that we have not validated.