Lucille Clifton Quotes

To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

Lucille Clifton

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• Writers should provoke disagreement.

  

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• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

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• I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there's probably no coincidence there, that the rhythm of the words is almost as important as the words themselves, and when you can get the two working together, which usually takes me about 20 goes, I feel a huge satisfaction.

  

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• I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.

  

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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

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• The situation is quite serious - groundwater is important source for water use, including drinking water, and if it gets contaminated, it's very costly and difficult to clean.

  

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• When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.

  

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• Mandela drafted the M Plan, a simple, commonsense plan for organization on a street basis so that Congress volunteers would be in daily touch with the people, alert to their needs and able to mobilize them.

  

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• You can never fully put your finger on the reason why you're suddenly, inexplicably compelled to explore one life as opposed to another.

  

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• I grew up in a little town in Minnesota, 500 people. I went out to Princeton, and I wasn't very well-accepted out there by the fancy folks of Princeton University, I felt. I came away bruised and feeling rejected.

  

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• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

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• If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance.

  

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• Law enforcement officers are never 'off duty.' They are dedicated public servants who are sworn to protect public safety at any time and place that the peace is threatened. They need all the help that they can get.

  

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• It wasn't until I set out to write a novel about marriage that I realized how little I knew about the institution.

  

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• Speaking about myself, I've been pleasantly surprised that my older plays are still being performed. Most important is that they still have something to say to today's audience, in particular the young people who enjoy my plays. That's the best I could hope for, that the plays aren't single-use products of one era.

  

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• Abstract painting is dead. That's why it has become so interesting again.

  

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• My parents loved me. My father used to carry me around on my shoulders. I know my father loved me. All families love their children, and we were good boys.

  

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• To be a good poet, you must care more about the writing, than the writer.

  

  Lucille Clifton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Care