Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGood health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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