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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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
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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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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