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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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
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
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
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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
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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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth

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