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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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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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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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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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