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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
The poetry is myself.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
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
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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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The music is in minors.
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