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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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 interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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
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
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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 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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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner

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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