Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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The poetry is myself.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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