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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?

Gwendolyn Brooks

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The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity

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