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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
The music is in minors.
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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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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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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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
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
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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