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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Each body has its art.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music 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
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
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth

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