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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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.
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Myself Talk Writing
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
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

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