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.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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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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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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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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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Each body has its art.
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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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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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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.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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