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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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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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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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Each body has its art.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Cool Death Reality Sing
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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