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Poetry is life distilled.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Black Color Human Room Understand White
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word 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
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner

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