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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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 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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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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Death Gold Identity Moments
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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