Mari Evans Quotes

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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
Where have you gone
with your confident
walk your
crooked smile the
rent money
in one pocket and
my heart
in another.

Mari Evans
When I
die
I'm sure
I will have a
Big Funeral
Curiosity
seekers
coming to see
if I
am really
Dead
or just
trying to make
Trouble.

Mari Evans
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
I will bring you a whole person
and you will bring me a whole person
and we will have us twice as much
of love and everything.

Mari Evans
If there be sorrow
let it be for things undone...
undreamed, unrealized, unattained
to these add one:
Love withheld...
... restrained.

Mari Evans
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
I'm gonna put black angels in all the books and a black Christ-child in Mary's arms.
i'm gonna make black bunnies black fairies black santas...

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

Mari Evans
Am a black woman
tall as a cypress
strong
beyond all definition still
defying place
and time
and circumstance
assailed
impervious
indestructible.
Look
on me and be
renewed.

Mari Evans
I'm
gonna spread out
over America
intrude
my proud blackness
all
over the place.

Mari Evans
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
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