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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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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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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
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
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
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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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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