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Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
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
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing

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