“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
Fuente: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
Thelma Lucille Sayles ,[1] conocida como Lucille Clifton, fue una poeta y educadora estadounidense. Como escritora, prestó especial atención a temas feministas como el cuerpo de la mujer y al tema de su herencia afroamericana. Wikipedia
“You might as well answer the door, my child,
the truth is furiously knocking.”
Fuente: Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969-1980
“born in babylon
both nonwhite and woman
what did i see to be except myself?”
The Book of Light (1993), "song at midnight", lines 17–19
Works
On her worldly view of poetry in “Poet Lucille Clifton: 'Everything Is Connected'” https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124113507 in NPR (2010 Feb 28)