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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
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
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
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
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
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
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow

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