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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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 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
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
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
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
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
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
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
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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
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
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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