What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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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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Each body has its art.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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