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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win

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