The Book of Light Quotes

“Come celebrate with me that every day something has tried to kill me and has failed.”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“they will empty your eyes of everything you love”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“so many languages have fallen off the edge of the world”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“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

“dreaming your x-ray vision could see the beauty in me.”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“a tongue blistered with smiling”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“her dangling braids the color of rain.”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“i am rejuvenated bones rising from the dear floor where they found you”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“they are shrouding words so that families cannot find them.”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“was my first landscape, red brown as the clay of her georgia.”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“and at night my dreams are full of the cursing of me fucking god fucking me.”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light

“walked erect out of my sleep”
― Lucille Clifton, The Book of Light