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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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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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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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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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