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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children 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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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

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