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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
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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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Death Fear Myself Realize
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
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
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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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