Lucille Clifton Quotes

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

Lucille Clifton

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• My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you? Are you black? Or white? What are you more of?'

  

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• In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

  

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• Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.

  

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• But I did an awful lot of work in Hollywood, and in New York for that matter.

  

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• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

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• Work is the thing that happens around the game time.

  

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• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

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• As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.

  

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• Reverence is fatal to literature.

  

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• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

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• It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.

  

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• Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.

  

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• There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.

  

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• There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.

  

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• Prayer requires more of the heart than of the tongue.

  

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• People think they have to give up things to make a difference to the world, but you don't have to.

  

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• Being a musician, it's my job to be real and be true to whoever I am. Hopefully that will inspire other people. I hope it inspires people to be themselves and be comfortable in your own skin.

  

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• The wussiest thing a guy can do is drive a clean truck. Dents, scratches and mud - that's manly.

  

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• I'm not asking actors to act. I'm asking them to behave. I want to see their being, not how they can fake it.

  

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• I started to write things down, as a very young child, wanting to find a way to remember - to keep close, somehow - moments that made an impression on me.

  

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• We discussed buying a defender. The view was the priority at that time given the way we were playing was that we needed support up front and that is why we bought Louis Saha.

  

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• I'm still dealing with the 21-year-old me. That idealist, that purist, that young, noble, and somewhat foolish guy . . . So I tell them to try to hold on to the way they feel right now. Because that's going to effect them for the rest of their lives.

  

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• I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off of a savanna or out of a cave and looked up at the sky with wonder and said, "Ahhh." That was the first poem.

  

  Lucille Clifton
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