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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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation 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

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