Quote of the day
Your real self - the I am I - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.
Lucille Clifton
Born: June 27, 1936
Died: February 13, 2010 (aged 73)
Bio: Lucille Clifton was an American poet, writer, and educator from Buffalo, New York. From 1979 to 1985 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. Clifton was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
Known for:
- Good Woman: Poems and A Memoir, 1969-1980 (1987)
- Next: New Poems (1987)
- Everett Anderson's nine month long (1971)
- The terrible stories (1996)