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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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