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

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Day Night Yourself
No man can give me any word but Wait.
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Man Patience Poet Wait Word Writing
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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 swear to keep the dead upon my mind, / Disdain for all time to be overglad.
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Death Mindset Myself Remember Time
Poetry is life distilled.
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Life One Liner Poetry
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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Fire Flower Independent Language Poet Sweet
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
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
This is the urgency: Live! and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind.
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Live Noise Urgent World Yourself
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
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
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
We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Bond Business Each Other Friendship Relationship
Art hurts. Art urges voyages – and it is easier to stay at home.
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Art Easy Home Hurt Stay
I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.
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Focus Language Myself Note Work
When I start writing a poem, I don’t think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
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Poem Start Thinking World Writing
One reason cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers.
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Animal Cat Happiness Media News Reason
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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Come Fear Greet Himself Session Sun
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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Hard Mistake Myself Talk Writing
Do not desire to fit in. Desire to oblige yourselves to lead.
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Brave Desire Inspirational Leadership
Writing is a delicious agony.
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Delicious One Liner Pain Poet Writing
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
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Interest Myself See Truth
The music is in minors.
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Minority Music One Liner

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