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gptkbp:instanceOf
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book
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gptkbp:affiliation
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gptkb:The_Poetry_Society_of_America
gptkb:The_Academy_of_American_Poets
gptkb:American_Academy_of_Arts_and_Letters
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gptkbp:author
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gptkb:Lucille_Clifton
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gptkbp:awards
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gptkb:The_Ruth_Lilly_Poetry_Prize
National Book Award
The Frost Medal
Poet_Laureate_of_Maryland
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gptkbp:birthYear
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1936
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gptkbp:deathYear
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2010
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gptkbp:education
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gptkb:Harvard_University
gptkb:Buffalo_State_College
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gptkbp:genre
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biography
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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The Life of Lucille Clifton
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gptkbp:influenced
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gptkb:African_American_poetry
Nikki Giovanni
Feminist literature
Maya Angelou
Contemporary poetry
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gptkbp:influencedBy
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gptkb:Langston_Hughes
gptkb:Zora_Neale_Hurston
gptkb:Gwendolyn_Brooks
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gptkbp:language
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English
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gptkbp:notableFeature
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family
identity
heritage
race
womanhood
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gptkbp:notableQuote
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"Poetry is a way of being in the world."
"I am a black woman writer."
"I am a witness to my own life."
"I want to be a poet who speaks for the people."
"I write for the people who have no voice."
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gptkbp:notableWork
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Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems
Good_Woman:_Poems_and_a_Memoir
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gptkbp:occupation
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poet
writer
educator
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gptkbp:placeOfBirth
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gptkb:Depew,_New_York
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gptkbp:placeOfDeath
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gptkb:Baltimore,_Maryland
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gptkbp:publisher
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Amistad
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gptkbp:releaseYear
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2012
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gptkbp:subject
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gptkb:African_American_literature
poetry
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