It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSVery early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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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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