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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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The poetry is myself.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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