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

Gwendolyn Brooks

Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
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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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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
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

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