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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
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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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
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
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes. He is rich and sweet and right. He is part of the world, the atmosphere, the blue sky and the blue water.
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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
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

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