Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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 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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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