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Lucille Clifton
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Lucille Clifton
(June 27, 1936 - February 13, 2010 / Baltimore, Maryland)
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1      A Dream of Foxes
2      adam thinking
3      admonitions
4      climbing
5      Cutting Greens
6      fury
7      good times
8      harriet
9      Homage to My Hips
10      i am accused of tending to the past
11      Island Mary
12      Listen Children
13      Lorena
14      memory
15      miss rosie
16      moonchild
17      My Mama Moved Among the Days
18      Poem in praise of menstruation
19      Praise Song
20      seeker of visions
        
 

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  Listen Children

listen children
keep this in the place
you have for keeping
always
keep it all ways

we have never hated black

listen
we have been ashamed
hopeless tired mad
but always
all ways
we loved us

we have always loved each other
children all ways

pass it on
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