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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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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
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
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
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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