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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Each body has its art.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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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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