Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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