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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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
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.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
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
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
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
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing

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