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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
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
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
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

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