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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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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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Each body has its art.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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The music is in minors.
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