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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

Gwendolyn Brooks

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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 don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
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
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
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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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet

Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.

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