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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!

Gwendolyn Brooks

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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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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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
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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