Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Each body has its art.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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The music is in minors.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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