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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
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
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel

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