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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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Deep God Lonely Love Master Thinking
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
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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
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
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
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
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
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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Life Perfume Sweet
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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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason

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