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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch 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
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.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win

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