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Life for my child is simple, and is good.

Gwendolyn Brooks

We don’t ask a flower any special reason for its existence. We just look at it and are able to accept it as being something different from ourselves.
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Acceptance Different Existence Flower Ourselves Reason
As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to meet you.
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Food Growth Old Yourself
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
Do not be afraid of no, Who has so far, so very far to go.
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Afraid Journey Path Travel
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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Black Identity Minority Worth Yourself
Goodness begins simply with the fact of life itself.
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Beginning Fact Goodness Life Simplicity
I am a writer perhaps because I am not a talker.
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Myself Talk 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
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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Air Book Flame Flower Medicine
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
Beware the easy griefs / that fool and fuel nothing.
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Easy Fools Fuel Grief
Exhaust the little moment soon it dies.
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Death Moments Time
She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.
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Deep Hereslf Learning Love Moments
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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Education Enough Inspirational Possible Writing
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
Truth-tellers are not always palatable. There is a preference for candy bars.
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Chocolate Preference Truth

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