Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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 think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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It is brave to be involved.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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