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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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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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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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