Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSPeople are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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