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No man can give me any word but Wait.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Cool Death Reality Sing
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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
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
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
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
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

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