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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

Gwendolyn Brooks

I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Health Myself Thinking
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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!
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Education Important Patience Reading Slow
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Day Night Yourself
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Writing is a delicious agony.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.

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