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

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Source : Lucille Clifton (1980). “Two-headed woman”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

Lucille Clifton

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“Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.”
“You and I are the force for transformation in the world. We are the consciousness that will define the nature of the reality we are moving into.”
“The relation between life and literature - a final antimony - is one of mutual plagiarism.”
“Unfortunately, we don't have a depth of African scriptwriters, so it's easier to Africanize something that already works. Local script writers are giving me James Bond budget scenes that I can't even produce.”
“Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.”
“Attachment is the main thing that is blocking your path towards enlightenment.”
“Evolution isn't just a take-it-or-leave-it story about where we came from. It's an epic at the centre of life itself. It tells us we are part of nature in every respect.”

Source : "Seals, evolution, and the real 'missing link'" by Kenneth R Miller, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2009.
“Love shouldn't be binding, but freeing.”

Source : Linda Wisdom (2008). “50 Ways to Hex Your Lover”, p.158, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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