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What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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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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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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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Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Death Fear Myself Realize
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

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