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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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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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The music is in minors.
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