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Writing is a delicious agony.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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