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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
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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
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
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

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