The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

Lucille Clifton
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People wish to be poets more than they wish to write poetry, and that's a mistake. One should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.

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The literature of America should reflect the children of America.

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the lost womenI need to know their namesthose women I would have walked with,jauntily the way men go in groupsswinging their arms, and the onesthose sweating women whom I would have joinedAfter a hard game to chew the fatwhat would we have called each other laughingjoking into our beer? where are my gangs,my teams, my mislaid sisters?all the women who could have known me,where in the world are their names?

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

Lucille Clifton, Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
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