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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
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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Black Color Human Room Understand White
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
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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