There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSIt is brave to be involved.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Poetry is life distilled.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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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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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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