We real cool. We Left school. We Lurk late. We Strike straight. We Sing sin. We Thin gin. We Jazz June. We Die soon.
GWENDOLYN BROOKSAs you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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The poetry is myself.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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I swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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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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We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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The music is in minors.
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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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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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