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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
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
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
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
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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
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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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet

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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