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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night 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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
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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 hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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
When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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Black Color Human Room Understand White
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments

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