Generations Quotes

“And I could tell you about things we been through, some awful ones, some wonderful, but I know that the things that make us are more than that, our lives are more than the days in them, our lives are our line and we go on. I type that and I swear I can see Ca’line standing in the green of Virginia, in the green of Afrika, and I swear she makes no sound but she nods her head and smiles.”
― Lucille Clifton, Generations: A memoir

“Things don’t fall apart. Things hold. Lines connect in thin ways that last and last and lives become generations made out of pictures and words just kept.”
― Lucille Clifton, Generations: A memoir

“His life had been full of days and his days had been full of life.”
― Lucille Clifton, Generations: A memoir

“Smoke was hanging over Buffalo like judgment.”
― Lucille Clifton, Generations: A memoir