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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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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Black Color Human Room Understand White
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
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

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