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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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When white and black meet today, sometimes there is a ready understanding that there has been an encounter between two human beings. But often there is only, or chiefly, an awareness that Two Colors are in the room.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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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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Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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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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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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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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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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