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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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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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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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Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World

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