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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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
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
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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
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
I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you’re telling them that they’re less than somebody else.
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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge.
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Challenge Enjoyment Experience Feeling Publish Writing
There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Insurance Man Oneself White
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
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
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing

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