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Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
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
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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Death Fear Myself Realize
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
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

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