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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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
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
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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

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