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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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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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