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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
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
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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

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