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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

Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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
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
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
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

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