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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

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
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
There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Food Growth Old Yourself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
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!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Cool Death Reality Sing
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

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