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Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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.
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Myself Talk Writing
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
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
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
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself

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