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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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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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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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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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