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The poetry is myself.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
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
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
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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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
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

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