Quotes from 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.

To identify the enemy is to free the mind.

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.

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.

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

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison.