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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Each body has its art.
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Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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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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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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There are no magics or elves or timely godmothers to guide us. We are lost, must wizard a track through our own screaming weed.
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I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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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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Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.
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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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Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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