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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!

Gwendolyn Brooks

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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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