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Lucille Clifton Quotes: they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine
         

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine


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What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.

What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.



In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.

In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.



Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.

Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.



Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.

Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language.



Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.

Every pair of eyes facing you has probably experienced something you could not endure.



the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves

the lesson of the falling leaves the leaves believe such letting go is love such love is faith such faith is grace such grace is god i agree with the leaves



You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.



We cannot create what we can't imagine.

We cannot create what we can't imagine.



Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.

Even when the universe made it quite clear to me that I was mistaken in my certainties ... I did not break. The shattering of my sureties did not shatter me.



Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.

Things don't fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.





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The amount of books or films or series which are you going to watch doesn't matter as far as long you understand all of them and keep track of all them.



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You can only call someone crazy if there's someone else who's normal.




The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.

The people are sovereign and the Constitution is supreme. There is no one greater than the people.



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Play is the answer to how anything new comes about.



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It just requires so much of you, and most of the time you feel dumb.




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