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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet 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
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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
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
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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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Health Myself Thinking
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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