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?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSI think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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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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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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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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