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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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
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
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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
We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People

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