Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThere can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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