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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

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
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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Death Gold Identity Moments
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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 am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing

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