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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner

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