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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
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
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
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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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship

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