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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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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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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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!
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
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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The music is in minors.
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