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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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The poetry is myself.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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