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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
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
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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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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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Death Gold Identity Moments
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
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth

I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.

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