What, what am I to do with all of this life?
GWENDOLYN BROOKSExhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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To be in love Is to touch things with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.
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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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I think there are things for all of us to do as long as we’re here and we’re healthy.
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I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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I think it must be lonely to be God. Nobody loves a master. No.
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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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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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The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the ’60s: Independent fire!
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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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Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.
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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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