Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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