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?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSNo man can give me any word but Wait.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Writing is a delicious agony.
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The music is in minors.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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It is brave to be involved.
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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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