The music is in minors.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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