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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

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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
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
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
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
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
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief

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