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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
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 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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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

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