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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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
The poetry is myself.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
The music is in minors.
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