Miss Clifton also won an Emmy Award, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Los Angeles Times Poetry Award.

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Lucille Clifton often said that she tried to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.

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Lucille Clifton believed that it was important for poets to write about their own memories.

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At one point,the husband, played by Clifton Webb, plays a joke on their son Bill.

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Lucille Clifton's poems deal with life and death, religion and politics, motherhood and family.

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That was Lucille Clifton's style. She often talked about her love for words.

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Lucille Clifton died in two thousand ten from problems related to cancer.

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In addition to her writing, Lucille Clifton spent many years teaching poetry.

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Fred Clifton was a professor of philosophy at a local university.

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Today we tell about the award-winning poet and writer Lucille Clifton.

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Miss Clifton received many other honors during her long career.

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Lucille Clifton wrote about it in her poem called "Lucy."

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Unlike her mother, Lucille Clifton's poetry was anything but traditional.

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Like many of Lucille Clifton's poems, "fury" is personal.

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Lucille Clifton wrote poetry while raising her family.

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