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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
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
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
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 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
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity

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