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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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
It is brave to be involved.
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I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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