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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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The poetry is myself.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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