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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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
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
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children 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
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself

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