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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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