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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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The music is in minors.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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