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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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 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
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
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight

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