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Other than “the unanswerable question”… It’s the heart speaking, maybe that, maybe the human heart speaking.

— Lucille Clifton

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born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?

The Book of Light (1993)

One thing poetry teaches us, if anything, is that everything is connected…There is so much history that we have not validated.

… I am a grown-up, sensual woman, even at this age and size. People would think you wouldn't be. I'm open to the whole of human experience.

I think that we're 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.

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