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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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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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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
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
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
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing

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