Mari Evans Quotes & Sayings

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

I have never been contained except I made the prison. — Mari Evans

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

Who can be born black and not exult! — 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

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

Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future — Mari Evans

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

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

To identify the enemy is to free the mind. — Mari Evans