Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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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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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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