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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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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
Writing is a delicious agony.
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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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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