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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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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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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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