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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
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
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Cool Death Reality Sing
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
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry

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