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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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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 am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
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 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
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
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
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership

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