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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night 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
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
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
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry

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