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What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
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
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night 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
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing

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