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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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