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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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
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
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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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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Health Myself Thinking
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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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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Death Fear Myself Realize

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