I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSBooks are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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The music is in minors.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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The poetry is myself.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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