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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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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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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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