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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!

Gwendolyn Brooks

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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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Death Fear Myself Realize
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry

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