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The poetry is myself.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
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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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
The poetry is myself.
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Myself 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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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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