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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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