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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSThe music is in minors.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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The music is in minors.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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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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