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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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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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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
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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
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
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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
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
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner

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