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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress 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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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