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The poetry is myself.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
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
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship

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