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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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
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
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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White

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