Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSOne reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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The poetry is myself.
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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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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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It is brave to be involved.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Each body has its art.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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