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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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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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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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The music is in minors.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Each body has its art.
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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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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