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As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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It is brave to be involved.
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There can be no whiter whiteness than this one: An insurance man’s shirt on its morning run.
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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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The poetry is myself.
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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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