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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAbortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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It is brave to be involved.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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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 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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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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