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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
The poetry is myself.
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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
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
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation 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

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