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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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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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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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