Lucille Clifton Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
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A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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I really think it is possible to make a very nice living by writing and not worrying about anything else.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Our leaders must hear us speaking on behalf of our brothers and sisters in South Sudan. If the moral duty to save lives and work toward peace is not compelling enough to drive decision-makers, we must remind them that we care and will hold them accountable.
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It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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Reality TV is easier to digest if it comes in small amounts.
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With the movies, people are not going to wait around. The deadline is a deadline. In publishing it's more a polite suggestion.
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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
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I don't know where Blair got his numbers, but the CBI (Confederation of British Industry) where I talked this morning had a sell-out audience and they turned away as many people as were in the audience who wanted to hear about Internet commerce, ... That doesn't sound like an apathetic audience.
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Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
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My writing isn’t a career or a craft or a hobby or anything like that. It is more like a tiny annex to my life, a little crawl space in which I occasionally end up by accident in the dark.
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I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.
