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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save 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
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
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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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