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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
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
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
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
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
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
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
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
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
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
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
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself

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