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Gwendolyn Brooks

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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize

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