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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
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
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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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Death Fear Myself Realize
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
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
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
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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 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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay

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