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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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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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