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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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
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
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
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
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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

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