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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
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
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 a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself

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