Life for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhat 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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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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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