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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
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.
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Brave Initiative One Liner

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

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