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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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