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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

Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
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
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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
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
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
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 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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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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