I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSEach body has its art.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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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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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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Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Each body has its art.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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