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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Death Gold Identity Moments
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Milk Myself

There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.

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