Quotations by the poet: Lucille Clifton

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Lucille Clifton

(June 27, 1936 - February 13, 2010 / Baltimore, Maryland)

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''Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.''

Lucille Clifton (b. 1936), U.S. poet. As quoted in Listen to Their Voices, ch. 9, by Mickey Pearlman (1993).

''My Mama has made bread
and Grampaw has come
and everybody is drunk
and dancing in the kitchen''

Lucille Clifton (b. 1936), U.S. poet. Good Times (l. 9-12). . . Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (19...

wishes for sons

i wish them cramps.
i wish them a strange town
and the last tampon.
I wish them no 7-11.

i wish them one week early
and wearing a white skirt.
i wish them one week late.

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