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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

Gwendolyn Brooks

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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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Black Color Human Room Understand White
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing

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