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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
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 is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Art Material Translation World
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet 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
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
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
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
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner

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