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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
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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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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
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
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
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
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear

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