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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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