Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Mari Evans

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American poet Mari Evans.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Mari Evans was an African-American poet, writer, and dramatist associated with the Black Arts Movement. Evans received grants and awards including a lifetime achievement award from the Indianapolis Public Library Foundation. Her poetry is known for its lyrical simplicity and the directness of its themes. She also wrote nonfiction and edited Black Women Writers (1950–1980): A Critical Evaluation, an important and timely critical anthology devoted to the work of fifteen writers. Evans died at the age of ninety-seven in Indianapolis, Indiana.

American - Poet | Born: July 16, 1923

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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

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

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

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

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

Mari Evans

I have never been contained except I made the prison.

Mari Evans

Who can be born black and not exult!

Mari Evans

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.

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

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

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

Top 13 Quotes & Sayings by Mari Evans

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