Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSGoodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I don’t like the idea of the black race being diluted out of existence. I like the idea of all of us being here.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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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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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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This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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