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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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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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The music is in minors.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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