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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

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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
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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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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear

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