As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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.
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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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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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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Each body has its art.
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