What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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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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