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 More Quotes by Mari Evans More Quotes From 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 persons whole love 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 understanding simple order 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 who-we-are language trying Education is the Jewel casting brilliance into the future Mari Evans brilliance casting jewels I'm Mari Evans spread proud america 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 music song sweet When I Mari Evans funeral dies bigs I have never been contained except I made the prison. Mari Evans women prison made Who can be born black and not exult! Mari Evans born black 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 magic singing people For the span of my memory, this has been a city of opposing wills. Mari Evans opposing cities memories To identify the enemy is to free the mind. Mari Evans mind enemy
