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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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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 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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Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.
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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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
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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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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Minority People Reference Worth Yourself
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.
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Battle End Inspirational Live Song Win
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
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 like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
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
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner
Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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