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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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Death Fear Myself Realize
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Achievement Beginning Early Fascinate Language Life Play Wonder Word
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
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing

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