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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.

Gwendolyn Brooks

As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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Guide Lost Magic Scream Time
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
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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 believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.
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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
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
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
I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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Health Myself Thinking
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth

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