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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

Gwendolyn Brooks

We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
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
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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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
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
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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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
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
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
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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Black Color Human Room Understand White

This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.

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