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Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Gwendolyn Brooks

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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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Black Existence Ideas Myself Race
$Gwendolyn Brooks Quote - It frightens me to realize that, if I had died before the age of fifty, I would have died a ‘Negro’ fraction.$

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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Death Fear Myself Realize
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
With melted opals for my milk, Pearl-leaf for my cracker.
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Milk Myself
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth
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
It is brave to be involved. To be not fearful to be unresolved.
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Brave Character Fear
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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Black Expression Fight Home Oppression Project Work
What, what am I to do with all of this life?
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Life Myself Philosophy Unknown
Reading is important – read between the lines. Don’t swallow everything.
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Education Important Patience Reading Slow
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
I tell poets that when a line just floats into your head, don’t pay attention ’cause it probably has floated into somebody else’s head.
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Attention Float Head Poet Yourself
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
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Love Myself See Sight
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk Writing
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
Each body has its art.
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Art Body One Liner

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