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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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