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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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