Other than “the unanswerable question”… It’s the heart spea… - Lucille Clifton

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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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Lucille Clifton (June 27, 1936 – February 13, 2010) was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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Birth Name: Thelma Lucille Sayles

Alternative Names: Thelma Lucille Clifton

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

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.

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

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