Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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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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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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It is brave to be involved.
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The music is in minors.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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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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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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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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