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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
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
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

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