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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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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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The music is in minors.
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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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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.
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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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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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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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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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