"these hips have never been enslaved, they go where they want to go they do what they want to do. these hips are mighty hips. these hips are magic hips"

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

Lucille Clifton

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“I think it's something that needs to be said - that there are interracial marriages out there, and the couples live happy lives, and there's nothing wrong with it.”
“The commonest fallacy among women is that simply having children makes them a mother - which is as absurd as believing that having a piano makes one a musician.”
“I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.”
“I do believe in poetry. I believe that there are creatures endowed with the power to put things together and bring them back to life”
“There's a voice when I write. I speak everything aloud. My family is so accustomed to me talking to myself that often times they don't answer me when I am trying to speak to one of them.”

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“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.”
“We don't put the same amount of money in each stock.”
“Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.”

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