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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

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
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
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
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
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself

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