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Live not for Battles Won. Live not for The-End-of-the-Song. Live in the along.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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Abortions will not let you forget. You remember the children you got that you did not get.
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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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With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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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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We are each other’s harvest; we are each other’s business; we are each other’s magnitude and bond.
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Life must be aromatic. There must be scent, somehow there must be some.
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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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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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Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.
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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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Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
Even if you are not ready for day it cannot always be night.
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Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air.
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The music is in minors.
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Be yourself. Don’t imitate other poets. You are as important as they are.
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