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Septima Poinsette Clark

  • “I have a great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful thinking. I consider chaos a gift.”

    • Septima Poinsette Clark,
    • in Brian Lanker, I Dream a World ()

  • “We are as old as our fears, / our frustrations, our doubts.”

    • Septima Poinsette Clark,
    • in Terri L. Jewell, ed., The Black Woman's Gumbo Ya-Ya ()

Septima Poinsette Clark, U.S. civil rights worker

(1898 - 1987)