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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch 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
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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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