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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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
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
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
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
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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief

Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.

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