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

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Lucille Clifton

#Accepting Quotes #Call Me Quotes

“This is a call to actionâ€”not an action that will make things better in six monthsâ€™ time or a yearâ€™s time, but action that might save someoneâ€™s life and someoneâ€™s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.”
“Men to whom life had appeared as a reversible coat - seamy on both sides.”
“I just want to be healthy and happy. I don't want to hurt anybody or make them mad. If that's a philosophy then that's my philosophy.”
“A friend hipped me to hypoglycemia, which an article I read calls 'a disease for a nation of sugar junkies.' Who knows how many people in this country have it?”
“I've died 3 times, I've been shot in the back, stabbed once in my arm, stabbed 2 times in my back, run over by a truck, been poisoned, broke both of my arms, nose (3 times broken), ribs, both legs, but a broken heart hurt me the most.”
“Fences, unlike punishments, clearly mark out the perimeters of any specified territory. Young children learn where it is permissible to play, because their backyard fence plainly outlines the safe area. They learn about the invisible fence that surrounds the stove, and that Grandma has an invisible barrier around her cabinet of antique teacups.”

Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.155, Celestial Arts
“Presidents who restrict civil liberties, even in wartime, are usually judged harshly for it.”

Source : "Making Presidential History". Online chat, www.slate.com. August 9, 2007.
“One line plus one line results in many meanings.”

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