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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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