18 Quotes by Mari Evans

I am a black woman tall as a cypress strong beyond all definition still defying place and timeand circumstance assailed impervious indestructibleLook on me and berenewed

If There Be SorrowIf there be sorrowlet it befor things undoneundreamedunrealizedunattainedto these add one:Love withheld... restrained

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

Who can be born black and not exult!

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

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

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

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.

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.