Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSWe 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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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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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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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