Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about. With all that's going on, how could I stop?Gwendolyn Brooks
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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 hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
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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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