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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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The poetry is myself.
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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 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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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