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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Writing is a delicious agony.
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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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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish 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
There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
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 think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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

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