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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
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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Death Gold Identity Moments
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
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing

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