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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Life for my child is simple, and is good.
GWENDOLYN BROOKS

Children Goodness Life Simplicity
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
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
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
I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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Black White
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
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
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
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
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
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
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
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
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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Cool Death Reality Sing

With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.

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