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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.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Death Fear Myself Realize
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
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
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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Blue Body Himself Love Man Rich Right Sweet Water World
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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Be Yourself Imitation Important Poet Yourself
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
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
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
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World 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
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
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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