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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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
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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Health Myself Thinking
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

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