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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

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
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
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
The poetry is myself.
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Myself 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

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