Mari Evans Quotes

• 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 Evans

  Love, Persons, Whole

  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 Evans

  America, Proud, Spread

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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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 Evans

  Simple, Order, Understanding

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future

  Mari Evans

  Jewels, Casting, Brilliance

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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 Evans

  Trying, Who We Are, Language

  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 Evans

  Music, Song, Sweet

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

  Mari Evans

  Mind, Enemy

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• Who can be born black and not exult!

  Mari Evans

  Black, Born

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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• I have never been contained except I made the prison.

  Mari Evans

  Women, Prison, Made

  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 Evans

  Father, Iron, Touching

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills.

  Mari Evans

  Memories, Cities, Opposing

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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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 Evans

  People, Magic, Singing

  Mari Evans (2006). “Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays”

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• When I
  die
  I'm sure
  I will have a
  Big Funeral

  Mari Evans

  Funeral, Bigs, Dies

  Mari Evans (2007). “Continuum: New and Selected Poems”

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