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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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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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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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The music is in minors.
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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
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself

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