I am a black woman poet and I sound like one. - Lucille Clifton

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This radical transformation of world power relationships reflects primarily in the case of both the USA and the USSR the growth of the productive forces.

Lucille Clifton

I am a black woman poet and I sound like one.

Black, Black Women, Like, Sound, Woman

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

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Tell the truth. . . maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

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You cannot play for safety and make art.

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I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers like all my old promises and it will be hard to let go of what I said to myself about myself when I was sixteen and twenty-six and thirty-six but I am running into a new year and I beg what i love and I leave to forgive me.

Letting Go, New Year, Promises, Running, Strong

I don't go get a poem. It calls me and I accept it.

Accept, Accepting, Call Me, Poem

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Do you know what would hold me together on a battlefield? The sense that I was perpetuating the language in which Keats and the rest of them wrote!

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Contrary to reports, this boy is not a billionaire or going to be richer than any Beatle. . . and not just in the sense of money, by the way; the Beatles are untouchable - those billionaire reports are a joke.

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I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors, found out what they wanted, and when they wanted it delivered.

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