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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
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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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself

Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.

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