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Mari Evans, born on July 16, 1923, was an accomplished American poet known for her profound social consciousness and unique personal style. Her poetry delves into themes of race, gender, and social justice, reflecting her deep insights and critical perspective on societal issues.

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“I 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”

Poetry Women Strength Poem Black Women African Americans Blacks

Author:Mari Evans

“If There Be Sorrow If there be sorrow let it be for things undone undreamed unrealized unattained to these add one: Love withheld ... restrained”

Love Poetry Regret

Author:Mari Evans

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

Has Beens Memories Cities Opposing

Book:Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

“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.”

Ifs Father Vulnerability Iron Touching Entity

Book:Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

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

America Proud Spread Blackness

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“When I die I'm sure I will have a Big Funeral”

Bigs Dies Funeral

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“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.”

Love Persons Whole Whole Person

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“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.”

People Language Magic Singing Hot Breaths Ancient Passages Imagery Geography Unchanging Idiom

Book:Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

“Who can be born black and not exult!”

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“I have never been contained except I made the prison.”

Made Women Prison Sabotage

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“To identify the enemy is to free the mind.”

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“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.”

Has Beens Order Understanding Simple Truth Is Bondage Simple Truths Ramifications

Book:Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

“Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future”

Jewels Casting Brilliance

Author: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”

I Can Night Song Black Music Written Heard Tears Sweet Keys Minors Black Women Humming

Book:Continuum: New and Selected Poems

Source: Continuum: New and Selected Poems

“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.”

Trying Has Beens Language Who We Are Poetic

Book:Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

Source: Clarity as Concept: A Poet's Perspective : a Collection of Essays

About the Author

Born: July 16, 1923
Died: March 10, 2017
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 15

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