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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
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
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
Don’t let anyone call you a minority if you’re black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You’re not less than anybody else.
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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight

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