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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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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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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