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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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
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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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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
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
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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself

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