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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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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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water 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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking

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