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

Gwendolyn Brooks

It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
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
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
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
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
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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow

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

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