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Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.

Gwendolyn Brooks

Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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Children Death Forget Remember Yourself
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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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Death Gold Identity Moments
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
People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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Help Knowledge Need People
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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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Cool Death Reality Sing
Good health is a duty to yourself, to your contemporaries, to your inheritors, to the progress of the world.
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Goodness Health Inheritance Progress World
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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Health Myself Thinking
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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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Black Color Human Room Understand White

Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.

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