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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black 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
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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
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
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief

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