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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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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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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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 real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
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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
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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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself

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