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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Death Gold Identity Moments
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
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
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
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself

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