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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI 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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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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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The music is in minors.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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