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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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Death Gold Identity Moments
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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
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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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Deal Devil Friendship Man Save Yourself
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
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 is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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

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