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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize
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
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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