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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

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

Focus Language Myself Note Work
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
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
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
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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Black Color Human Room Understand White
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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 be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself

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