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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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Cool Death Reality Sing
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
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 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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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 know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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