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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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