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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Hand Lights Love Touch Yourself
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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

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