Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWhen 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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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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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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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When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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