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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
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
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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

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