What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe 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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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