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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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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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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 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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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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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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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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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