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What, what am I to do with all of this life?

Gwendolyn Brooks

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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Each body has its art.
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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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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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$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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People are so in need, in need of help. People want so much that they do not know.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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What I’m fighting for now in my work… for an expression relevant to all manner of blacks, poems I could take into a tavern, into the street, into the halls of a housing project.
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I know that the Black emphasis must be not against white but FOR Black.
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And if sun comes how shall we greet him? shall we not dread him, shall we not fear him after so lengthy a session with shade?
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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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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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It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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