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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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Cool Death Reality Sing
There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
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
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown

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