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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Believe Destroy Difference Doubt Each Other Happiness Human
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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Life for my child is simple, and is good.
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Children Goodness Life Simplicity
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
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
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker. It has always been hard for me to say exactly what I mean in speech But if I have written a clumsiness, I may erase it.
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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
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
It is brave to be involved.
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Brave Initiative One Liner
Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Each body has its art.
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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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The poetry is myself.
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Myself Poetry
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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