Mari Evans quotes
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“I will bring you a whole person, You will bring me a whole person, And we will have us twice as much, Of love and everything.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
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“I'm gonna spread out over America intrude my proud blackness all over the place.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
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“No single living entity really influenced my life as did my father ... He lived as if he were poured from iron, and loved his family with a vulnerability that was touching.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”
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“Who can be born black and not exult!”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
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“For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”
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“I try for a poetic language that says, This is who we are, where we have been, where we are. This is where we must go. And this is what we must do.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”
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“I am a black woman the music of my song some sweet arpeggio of tears is written in a minor key and I can be heard humming in the night Can be heard humming in the night”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
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“Idiom is larger than geography it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”
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“The not so simple Truth is that we must be psychologically free in order to resist and we must resist in order to be free, and all of this requires an understanding of what bondage has been, of what it continues to be and of its ramifications for the future.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”
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“To identify the enemy is to free the mind.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
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“I have never been contained except I made the prison.”
-- Mari EvansSource : Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”
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“Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future”
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