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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Help Knowledge Need People
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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