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The Book of Light QUOTES

The Book of Light QUOTES

1 " Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed. "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

2 " they will empty your eyes of everything you love "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

3 " so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

4 " who among us can imagine ourselves unimagined? who among us can speak with so fragile tongue and remain proud? "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

5 " dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me. "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

6 " her dangling braids the color of rain. "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

7 " a tongue blistered with smiling "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

8 " was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia. "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

9 " i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

10 " they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them. "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

11 " and at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me. "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light

12 " walked erect out of my sleep "

― Lucille Clifton , The Book of Light