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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
What 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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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
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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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