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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
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
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
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
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
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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
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
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself

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